02-25-2012, 12:37 PM
Aish-- A rather silly point has arrived. I love this poem, and could leave it at that. However, we don't do that. Then I saw it sinking into oblivion, and thought I must stop that, so that someone who can offer useful advice may have an opportunity to do so.
I must needs say why I like it! Well, the language is rich and beautiful, yet includes the very stuff of our age; it contrasts an appeal to spirituality, with words we associate with the everyday, the modern, the external world. Despite growing up with cartoons of Aussies always on the hunt for liquid amber, and its proximity to 'rose', I choose to think of it more as a cocktail of the world's beginnings, and ours, and 'the dark face of night' is so similar to the 'face of God'. I did not much care for 'twinkling', perhaps because that is what stars are always supposed to do, but the last lines were quite magical.
I must needs say why I like it! Well, the language is rich and beautiful, yet includes the very stuff of our age; it contrasts an appeal to spirituality, with words we associate with the everyday, the modern, the external world. Despite growing up with cartoons of Aussies always on the hunt for liquid amber, and its proximity to 'rose', I choose to think of it more as a cocktail of the world's beginnings, and ours, and 'the dark face of night' is so similar to the 'face of God'. I did not much care for 'twinkling', perhaps because that is what stars are always supposed to do, but the last lines were quite magical.