Loss in Keane's "The Frog Prince"

Loss is not the situation that you simply lose something. For me, loss is like something you can hardly pay attention to think of someone or something in particular. Therefore, there are no intentional sorrow when you lose something or someone. I think it is more like something is lost in the progress when you are into some other thing. The intrinsic affection plays the essential role in loss for human relationship since it not only connects each other but also draw them together most of the time. Something has lost when you are unaware of them, taking no heed of your relationship with others even though others exist.

Perhaps others exist in other realm, and there are something truthful that binds you and others; however, you seem not to discover that. Independence ought not to be put in this situation at present. Please show your judgement to me in a proper time. My feeling, peculiarly, tends to care about the relationship for both sides rather than mere individual. In my opinion, loss means that there are still something to do with sentimental relationship and it is no easy to let it go immediately. It is like you will feel anxious and worry about the thing after knowing that you have lost something. If you are aware of the situation on the leaving of others, it would be called "gone," which means that you will not put so much sentiments on others since you have known that something is completely accomplished and finished. You might feel sorrowful, but you know things should be done in this way.

The song, "The Frog Prince," from band Keane, inspires me something to do with loss. The lyrics is like that there is a group of people watching how the prince undergoes such an adventure on his own. The prince possesses a pure mind at first since the lyrics tells us that "you've wandered so far/ from the person you are," so the "person" literally symbolizes the goodness of human. Nonetheless, he is told to be drooped and devitalized by "perfume, treasure, sorcery every trick they know". Immaculate as the prince kept, he was born to be innocent and virtuous initially. Subsequently, everything has changed when his crown falls down. It sounds a bit sad for his fate, but the crucial point is that he does not understand why he will become such a man with powerlessness and encounters his predicament which he has ever thought of. He is unaware of the transformation on self in the progress of his adventure. Finally, something might happen when he is told to "let go, brother, let go... cause we all know." Though we do not know what happened to the prince, we still can take a guess that something might happen while it affects the intrinsic quality of goodness and then sways the "gentle and mild" characteristic from him.

Yet, everybody knows the reason except the prince for he still gets stuck with his predicament. Loss is that something you pay less attention to step by step, for we can tell the concept of point-line-plane. First of all, as the prince's crown falls down and cracks, the main image points out the problem. Next, the extended part will be his castle for the concept of line, which it becomes cold and hollow without anyone visiting him. Finally, as the prince has wandered so far from the person he is, the "wander" signifies the aimlessly finding something he has lost. And if we take the "person" as a center of his essence, he may have chance to come back to the person he was by letting his problems go. The concept of plane therefore is conceived roughly. All these processes may form the layers of loss, from the beginning to the end in terms of the tension of loss.

The final part of the melody from the piano reveals a kind of gradually being enlightened for returning to the "person" the prince is. Quite beautiful.

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