Passover Haggadah
Can someone please help me with this poem please? What is it about?
Feinstein, Elaine : Eclipse [from Daylight (1997) , Carcanet ]
1 On both sides of the gardens the tall
2 houses have put out their lights.
3 Now the cypress is blue and furry,
4 night creatures move quietly in the long grass,
5 and, as if in the ages before electricity,
6 the moon is a white lantern over the birch trees.
7 Grandchildren, indulged after the Passover seder,
8 have stopped using the mouse on my apple mac
9 to stare through the window at the luminous ball
10 like primitive people in a world of miracles.
11 This year, Katriona read the questions from the Haggadah;
12 Lara knew the ancient stories. Now three generations
13 sit together, imagining ourselves on the globe
14 of the earth, and trying to believe it is our own
15 brown shadow moving over the moon.
Thank you your help is very much appreciated
Think about the parallel between nature and technology, and the way passover–which is about salvation through an exodus, in case u didn’t know– is juxtaposed to the moon. “Trying to believe it is our own brown shadow moving over the moon.” I’m assuming you are analyzing this poem for a class? Talk about how in the face of nature, the three generations sort of unite in their human commonality. Instead of an exodus across a desert, I think what the poet is suggesting is more of an exodus across the universe (as evidenced by the image of the shadows moving across the moon)– the “world of miracles” can be found now only in the unknown, in space, and that is the next place we will all find salvation.
Of course, I am writing this in like two minutes, so I’m sure if you analyzed it for longer you could find more, and explain it more coherently.
Passover Haggadah explained briefly JewU 6 Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg
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