Week 4 Judith Wright's; Pool and Star
On Tuesday of the 25th of September, the class discussion was about the Judith Wright poem, 'Pool and Star', from the Introduction workbook.
When I got home I re-read the poem (slowly) as some opinions that were thrown around the table during the class's session started to come back to me. What made it a bit easier for me to form an opinion was a photograph of the star over the rock pool.
After some thought about the poem it was the last line; "and his image burns my breast." that I came to think the Poet was talking about the Devil, Satan.
Actually it was a few things that made me form this opinion. One of them was the structure of the poem and it's sexual overtones in the second half of the poem.
Secondly it was the photograph of the star that reminded me of drawings or paintings I have seen before of the 'Star of Bethlehem.'
What have these two stars in common?
Traditionally Christians believe that the star of Bethlehem was a good sign as it showed the house where the manger was where Jesus was born. Some people believe that the star was either a comet, metorite, or a supanova. But the bible states that the star stopped over the house.
How strange then that the only people to actually not only see the star and understand it were three Astrologers from the east. These same three men who promised King Herod that after their visit to the 'New King' they would return to Herod to tell him where the child was.
Only the intervention from the True God made the three men leave the next day to their homeland by another route, so they would not report to King Herod.
The star was not, nor was it never a good sign from the heavens. True Christians believe in the word of the bible and the only spiritual being that would have done that would have been the Devil, Satan.
"For Satan himself keeps transforming himself into an angel of light." Co; 11:14.
My whole opinon about the poem(which I do like) is; if the Poet were praising the True God for the creation of this beautiful land that she saw before her, would she have sexual overtones in the peom? No!
Why? Because the star she saw became seductive like the Star of Bethlehem.
Remeber too, that the Devil, Satan was able to make Eve eat fruit from the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad" through a serpent.
When I got home I re-read the poem (slowly) as some opinions that were thrown around the table during the class's session started to come back to me. What made it a bit easier for me to form an opinion was a photograph of the star over the rock pool.
After some thought about the poem it was the last line; "and his image burns my breast." that I came to think the Poet was talking about the Devil, Satan.
Actually it was a few things that made me form this opinion. One of them was the structure of the poem and it's sexual overtones in the second half of the poem.
Secondly it was the photograph of the star that reminded me of drawings or paintings I have seen before of the 'Star of Bethlehem.'
What have these two stars in common?
Traditionally Christians believe that the star of Bethlehem was a good sign as it showed the house where the manger was where Jesus was born. Some people believe that the star was either a comet, metorite, or a supanova. But the bible states that the star stopped over the house.
How strange then that the only people to actually not only see the star and understand it were three Astrologers from the east. These same three men who promised King Herod that after their visit to the 'New King' they would return to Herod to tell him where the child was.
Only the intervention from the True God made the three men leave the next day to their homeland by another route, so they would not report to King Herod.
The star was not, nor was it never a good sign from the heavens. True Christians believe in the word of the bible and the only spiritual being that would have done that would have been the Devil, Satan.
"For Satan himself keeps transforming himself into an angel of light." Co; 11:14.
My whole opinon about the poem(which I do like) is; if the Poet were praising the True God for the creation of this beautiful land that she saw before her, would she have sexual overtones in the peom? No!
Why? Because the star she saw became seductive like the Star of Bethlehem.
Remeber too, that the Devil, Satan was able to make Eve eat fruit from the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad" through a serpent.