DDCPoetry

Poem found here:  "Night Piece" by James Joyce Three sestets that build off the simple prompt of "Night."  Now, why specifically night piece?  There's definitely a feel of free from consciousness with the lines, association of the physical and the mental, Especially with the first line, "Gaunt in the gloom," where the construction sets up an ambiguous subject, at first, then the focus on above, "The pale stars their torches, / Enshrouded, wave."  Note how the construction falls apart here with the emphasis on "enshrouded," then the attached descriptor of "wave" to elicit motion -- a constant enshrouded feeling.  However, there's the connection of the image to, "Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint illume / Arches on soaring arches, Night's sindark nave."  I wasn't to sure on what or who sindark is, but note how the connection is to the heavens, which is an easy connection but the image become...