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Poet: Paul Muldoon
Poem: Holy Thursday
Comment 2 of 2, added on January 2nd, 2010 at 12:00 AM.
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Comment 1 of 2, added on June 20th, 2005 at 10:02 AM.
Holy Thursday itself is the beginning of the Easter Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday/Easter). It is the day we remember that, during the Last Supper, Jesus took bread and wine and left us a memorial of his passion and death, and the hope of life after death.
The couple in the poem are having their own "Last Supper" just as the waiter in the poem has his meal. He uses bread to clean the plate and drains his glass of wine, then rearranges everything as it was. But the meal, like the relationship, is over; things will not be the same again. The shutters are up as the restaurant ends its business day and the waiter, after finishing his supper, bows to his "absenece", as if he has shared this meal with someone other than himself.
Perhaps the couiple in the poem have lost sight of the reality of God in their lives, that there is another who was always present in the relationship yet was never acknowledged. And, as Holy Thursday led eventually to Easter Sunday, so perhaps, as this relationship ends, there is the hope of a resurrected one later on
Tom Cloutier from United States
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