Directive Memory and The Past Quotes

If you're getting bummed out by this trip back in time, seeing how time has trampled all the old things, here our speaker suggests you sing a happy song to cheer yourself up. It might help to imagine the productive life that once thrived where you're walking—and to imagine that it could still exist.

There's nothing quite so depressing as an abandoned playhouse scattered with broken toys. It practically screams out, "lost innocence," doesn't it? Here, our speaker is so bummed out he practically demands that we cry along with him. Why? Because those kids were so simple and innocent that they could be made happy with even the smallest of things. All they really needed was imagination.

Do you have memories you like to return to again and again? Maybe they're your "happy place." It sounds like this place is one of those memories for the speaker. He's been there many times, so much, in fact, that he's stashed the broken goblet he stole from the kids' playhouse for times when he returns. Along with references to cellars (where you store things for later), this goblet recalls another time (legend even) and it becomes a vessel for return.