Qualche riferimento in più circa il San Francesco di Chesterton e i Mumford & Sons...

Lo riportiamo sano sano da questo blog [il titolo del blog è Laughter and Humility (GK-Chesterton.org)].

In pratica il riferimento al San Francesco di Chesterton nel testo della canzone The Cave è un versetto che riprende un brano della biografia del Poverello d'Assisi. Abbiamo messo in grande in azzurro il testo della canzone, mentre in rosso il passaggio (bellissimo!) del libro del Nostro.

Il riferimento è schietto ed evidente ed anche significativo e fedele al testo chestertoniano. Molto bello, perché fa riferimento a quel vedere il mondo a testa in giù che suggerirebbe il senso della dipendenza da Chi ha fatto il mondo, Dio.

Il testo del post è in inglese qui sotto.

Poi pare che il frontman del gruppo, Marcus Mumford, abbia suggerito la lettura di Chesterton nel "book club" del loro sito internet.

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Mumford and Sons' "The Cave" and GKC's "Saint Francis of Assisi"

Given that Marcus Mumford has recommended reading GKC in the "book club" on their website (see here), and referenced him elsewhere as well (see here), I find it interesting to come across a message board post that points out there is an allusion to Chesterton's Saint Francis of Assisi in the song "The Cave".

First, from Mumford and Son's "The Cave"

So come out of your cave walking on your hands

And see the world hanging upside down

You can understand dependence

When you know the Maker's hand

Now, the passage from Chesterton's Saint Francis of Assissi

Francis, at the time or somewhere about the time when he disappeared into the prison or the dark cavern, underwent a reversal of a certain psychological kind...The man who went into the cave was not the man who came out again...He looked at the world as differently from other men as if he had come out of that dark hole walking on his hands...This state can only be represented in symbol; but the symbol of inversion is true in another way. If a man saw the world upside down, with all the trees and towers hanging head downwards as in a pool, one effect would be to emphasise the idea of dependence. There is a Latin and literal connection; for the very word dependence only means hanging. It would make vivid the Scriptural text which says that God has hung the world upon nothing.