In “Spellbound,” Emily Brontë writes about feeling “bound” by a strange spell; and yet, she cannot go. Whether this is up to her own volition is up to reader interpretation, however, in this setting I have chosen to portray it as a reflection on the author's struggle with depression. Wind noises bookend this piece, symbolizing the speaker's continued immobility. You'll also hear whispers of, “and I will not, cannot go” something that the speaker hears from not only the wind, but herself. “But nothing drear can move me; I will not, cannot go.”
