Poem Without an End By Yehuda Amichai

Inside the brand-new museum

there’s an old synagogue.

Inside the synagogue

is me.

Inside me

my heart.

Inside my heart

a museum.

Inside the museum

a synagogue,

inside it

me,

inside me

my heart,

inside my heart

a museum

ANALOGY:

This poem talk about how his religion is always in his heart, even though a lot of things is changing. The evidence from passage is “Inside the brand-new museum there’s an old synagogue. Inside the synagogue is me. Inside me my heart. Inside my heart a museum.” The word “ synagogue” means a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction or an assembly or congregation of Jews for the purpose of religious worship. The “brand-new museum” shows that life around the persona is changing, but the “old synagogue”  and “Inside the synagogue is me” shows that even though something new is built, the persona’s loyalty for his religion, which is Jewish,  will never change.

Also, this poem is talking about how the persona is older in age.The evidence from passage is “Inside my heart a museum.” If inside the persona’s hear lies a museum, it indicates that the persona has works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept inside his/her. Without being older in age and witnessing a lot of things, one will not be able to have a “museum” inside his/her heart.

All in all, I feel that the author is trying to express that the older generation is always loyal to their religion, even when the world is evolving into something different.

 

The above picture depicts a scene inside a synagogue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP5D66kF0d8