*********HAMLET BLOG 5*********

"Hang Me Up To Dry"

Careless in our summer clothes, splashing around in the muck and the mire
Careless in our summer clothes, splashing around in the muck and the mire

Fell asleep with stains, caked deep in the knees (what a pain)

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out too, too, too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites wh-whites of your eyes

All mixed up in the wash
Hot water bleeding our colors
All mixed up in the wash
Hot water bleeding our colors

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out too, too, too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites wh-whites of your eyes

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out too, too, too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites wh-whites of your eyes

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“within a month” (1.2.153)- The Cold War Kids produced a song about to cope with a break up that moved on too fast. Hamlet's mom as seen by Horatio moved on too fast, with "Most wicked speed" is used to describe how quickly she progressed into marrying again.
"to die:to sleep” (3.2.64-60)- To draw a parallel between death I choose being hung up to dry. Horatio was left to fend for himself after the kingdom had been purged and Fortinbras restored, thus he is left "to be or not to be."
"Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent” (3.3.88)- The Cold War Kids used the parallel that Horatio can again appeal to. "Bleeding out all the colors" in the song is used to show how his life around him is bleeding and this is most just in the comparison to Horatio.

“O God! A beast, that wants discourse of reason” (1.2.149)-The woman in this song, like Gertrude is compared to a beast. Thus, the break in the chain of being.
“unweeded garden” (1.2.134)- The conceit used in the song is a washer, all the clothes being tumbled about. Horatio can see this exemplified in the garden.
 “A young maid’s wits should be as mortal as an old man’s life,” (4.2.76)- While the maid is the man in the song we can see that Ophelia is represented by this quote, she is frail from Hamlet and Horatio realizes this.
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” (4.5.37)- Sorrow is a theme that protrudes from both works. The sorrow in the media is shown from the pain of the brake up. However, hamlet is brought to sorrow no by Polonius but the battalions.
“Slings of arrows… sea of troubles… heart-ache and the thousand shocks” (3.1.59-62)
"I was the more deceived."(2.1.117)- Horatio was deceived by everyone, the only true character to not sin, thus no die. The song refers to deception as a form of a heart break.
"There is no shuffling, there the action lies" (act 3.1.61)- The action in the song is found in the shuffling of the chain of a relationship, similarly the chain is altered in the "Hamlet" by the chain of being be out of place thus the formation of action occurs. Horatio is a witness, the lone survivor of the play.