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"Red Right Hand" is a song by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released as a single from their eighth studio album, Let Love In (1994), on 24 October 1994. A condensed version was included in the single, while the longer version was included with the album. The title comes from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), in which it refers to the vengeful hand of God.

The song has become one of Nick Cave's signature songs, being performed at most of his concerts; only "The Mercy Seat" has appeared in more of his live sets since 1984.^[5] It has since become best known for its use in the Scream film series and later as the theme song to the British period crime drama TV series Peaky Blinders, which resulted in the song receiving a re-release single in 2014. It has been covered by Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop, Jarvis Cocker and Snoop Dogg, among others.

In 2005, Cave was a guest performer on his former girlfriend Anita Lane's cover of the song.^{[citation needed]}

The liner notes for Murder Ballads state that the phrase "red right hand" is from a line in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost that refers to divine vengeance. The opening song on the album, "Song of Joy," states of a murderer: "It seems he has done many, many more, / quotes John Milton on the walls in the victim's blood. / The police are investigating at tremendous cost. / In my house he wrote 'his red right hand'. / That, I'm told, is from Paradise Lost."

The aforementioned appearance in Paradise Lost (Book II, 170-174) is: "What if the breath that kindled those grim fires, / Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage, / And plunge us in the flames; or from above / Should intermitted vengeance arm again / His red right hand to plague us?" The term itself appears to be Milton's translation of the term "rubente dextera" in Horace's Ode I.2,2-3.

4/21/2024

Remember you said "Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven"

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout.^[1][2] It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of all time.^[3] The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Satan, formerly called Lucifer, is the first major character introduced in the poem. He is a tragic figure who famously declares: "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" (1.263). Following his vain rebellion against God he is cast out from Heaven and condemned to Hell. The rebellion stems from Satan's pride and envy (5.660ff.).

『失楽園』（しつらくえん、英語: Paradise Lost）とは、旧約聖書『創世記』第3章の挿話である。蛇に唆されたアダムとイヴが、神の禁を破って「善悪の知識の木」の実である「禁断の果実」を食べ、最終的にエデンの園を追放されるというもの。楽園喪失、楽園追放ともいう。

ユリウス暦1667年にイングランドの17世紀の詩人、ジョン・ミルトンによる旧約聖書の『創世記』をテーマにした壮大な初期近代英語の叙事詩。ヤハウェに叛逆して一敗地にまみれた堕天使のルシファーの再起と、ルシファーの人間に対する嫉妬、およびルシファーの謀略により楽園追放に至るも、その罪を自覚して甘受し楽園を去る人間の偉大さを描いている。『失楽園』に対応する作品として『復楽園』（楽園回復）もある。ダンテ・アリギエーリの『神曲』とともに、キリスト教文学の代表作として知られる。

ミルトンは悪魔学の専門家ではなかったが、その当時に見られた悪魔に対する様々な説を総合した独自の解釈を作中に盛り込んだ。ミルトンによる解釈はその後のキリスト教に影響し、殊にルシファーに関する逸話に大きな影響を与えた。ミルトンの詩の中では、ルシファーはヤハウェの偉大さを知りつつも、服従よりも自由に戦って敗北することを選ぶ、一種の英雄として描かれる^{[注釈 1]}。

https://jyado.blogspot.com/2024/04/remember-you-said-better-to-reign-in.html

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