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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given that all the season finale titles have derived from John Berryman's Dream Song 29 in some way, I wonder what line of the poem the finale will derive from, and what that will say about the series?

https://www.distractify.com/p/all-the-bells-say-succession-meaning

Here's the poem fwiw:

There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart / so heavy, if he had a hundred years / & more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time / Henry could not make good. / Starts again always in Henry’s ears / the little cough somewhere, an odour, a chime. //

And there is another thing he has in mind / like a grave Sienese face a thousand years / would fail to blur the still profiled reproach of. Ghastly, / with open eyes, he attends, blind. / All the bells say: too late. This is not for tears; / thinking. //

But never did Henry, as he thought he did, / end anyone and hacks her body up / and hide the pieces, where they may be found. / He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody’s missing. / Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. / Nobody is ever missing. //

Maybe "Too late" -- but he's already used This is Not for Tears and All the Bells Say, which surround that.  So maybe, if one of the kids really does betray everyone else, "And hide the pieces, where they may be found."  Or maybe "In the Dawn."[/quote]

This is very cool!  I did not know this before. I love these kinds of things.  I like "And Hide the Pieces, Where They May Be Found" as a last-episode title, but it might be too long.  Maybe just the first or second half of that line.

Or perhaps, "He Went Over Everyone"  -- a sort of metaphor for Logan's spirit/influence reaching from beyond the grave.

I also like "With Open Eyes," or "A Thousand Years Would Fail to Blur," but no specific ideas of how those lines would relate to the plot.[/quote]

Aaaand the finale is called "With Open Eyes"!!  So I was right about it being a quote from the (Berryman not Whitman doh) Dream Song that the other season finale's have quoted from, and YOU, PP, were right about the phrase.  Nice work, us.

Given the context of the part it's being pulled from ("Ghastly, / with open eyes, he attends, blind. / All the bells say: too late. This is not for tears; / thinking. //") I don't think it sounds like the finale is going to be a hearts and flowers ending for everyone.  To me it suggests a range of things:  the people in charge don't know what they're doing; generational trauma continues to haunt and affect the family, and get passed down, etc; nothing is really solved.

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