In the 1993 hit, “Heart Shaped Box” the lyrics and music video both are symbolic of Kurt’s rocky relationship with his wife Courtney Love, his suicidal tendencies, drug use, as well as social and political events in the 1990’s. In the second scene, there is a man appearing to be old and malnourished, wearing a Santa hat and picking red poppies in a large field. The scene cuts out and shows the same man climbing onto a wooden cross and “crucifying” himself. The red poppy is often a symbol of remembrance that is a tribute to those who died in battle, or who had fought in a war. Coincidentally the Gulf war began, and the cold war ended both just two years before the release of this song, in the year of 1991. The elderly, weathered man could symbolize
