LITERATURE ENTRY WEEK EIGHT
MORE JUDITH WRIGHT......
I have created a powerpoint presentation demonstrating my interpretation of her poetry. I find her very spiritual but much more of the elements of nature. At times she seems to be almost at one with nature, which I find remarkable and inspiring. Hope you enjoy.
I'm still learning how to produce powerpoint presentations so forgive me I haven't added any music....maybe next time.
Well I tried to upload it here but with no luck so instead I have pasted the slides here.....sorry....
“Patterns” by Judith Wright
“Brighter than a thousand suns”
-that blinding glare circled the world and settled in our bones.
Human eyes impose a human pattern,
decipher constellations against featureless dark.
All’s fire, said Heraclitus; measures of it
Kindle as others fade. All changes yet all’s one.
We are born of ethereal fire and we return there.
Understand the Logos; reconcile opposing principles.
Perhaps the dark itself is the source of meaning,
the fires of the galaxy its visible destruction.
Round earth’s circumference and atmosphere
bombs and warheads crouch waiting their time.
Strontium in the bones (the mass-number of 90)
is said to be “a good conductor of electricity”.
Well, Greek, we have not found the road to virtue.
I shiver by the fire this winter.
The play of opposites, their interpretation-
there’s the reality, the fission and fusion.
Impossible to choose between absolutes, ultimates.
Pure light, pure lightlessness cannot be perceived.
“Twisted are the hearts of men-dark powers possess them.
Burn the distant evildoer, the unseen sinner.”
That prayer to Agni, fire-god, cannot be prayed.
We are all of us born of fire, possessed by darkness.
