My Eyes Bringing Desire to Christina’s World - Dependency and Hope in the World of a Handicap

My Eyes Bringing Desire to Christina’s World:

Dependency and Hope in the World of a Handicap

“I can’t take my eyes off of you.” is repeated many times in the song “The Blower’s daughter”, which means quite a bit. With the poem and to the painting, the song expresses the feeling in both of the eyes of a handicap person and in the eyes of another person who loves them. Handicapped people require all the attention in the world, and even when they aren’t being attended to, someone is thinking about them. In the painting, the artist depicts a young girl, who seems to be crawling toward a home on a hill quite the distance away. She seems to be quite thin and weak, which hints at the point there may be a physical problem with her. In the poem, the farmer and his family give birth to a handicapped child and while watching her sleep, can see the desire and peacefulness in her. “His thoughts while they are resting. She’s only imagining, stalks of yellow flowers flush and frilled and rippling, and a song of hours. On this and all the world’s resources, she lingers, lit up like a votive.” which means that she is only thinking about the most peaceful things in the world, and no matter what happens while she is awake, those thoughts inside of her will not be changed. These examples express the thought of someone being different or struggling to live. With the picture of a weak girl crawling to a home-looking building and the constant attention both shown in the song and the poem, these three things all connect in a certain way. They connect in the way of love and caring. They connect in a way that shows the desire and the determination anyone can see in a handicapped person’s eyes. In the song by Damien Rice, it seems, that quite possibly someone has fallen in love with someone. It does not have to be what everyone thinks. Love is not just something between two people, this could also be something felt by a father to a daughter, or a mother to a son, in a completely non sexual and non physical way. The father, who is a farmer in the poem “Bringing Desire to The Fields”, seems to be in love with his handicapped daughter. He thinks about her constantly, even when he is about to sleep. The same thing shows in the song “The Blower’s Daughter” by Damien Rice. He is so in love with this girl who has nothing, that even when he cannot see her, she is all over his mind. She seems to be handicapped in some way in her life. He sings of her having no hero and no glory as if she cannot do anything amazing in her life at all. He sings as if she is somewhat a handicap on the world. There can be someone who is a handicap, maybe not due to disease or problems with their body. There may be something bothering the person mentally, which would remove all will from them to accomplish something, but yet they still live on.

There is only one thing that can stop a person from doing something