This is Analysis of the poem Near the Wall of a House by Yehuda Amichai.
POEM:
Near the wall of a house painted
to look like stone,
I saw visions of God.
A sleepless night that gives others a headache
gave me flowers
opening beautifully inside my brain.
And he who was lost like a dog
will be found like a human being
and brought back home again.
Love is not the last room: there are others
after it, the whole length of the corridor
that has no end.
About Yehuda Amichai:
Yehuda Amichai is perceived as one of Israel's best artists. His ballads—written in Hebrew—have been converted into forty dialects, and whole volumes of his work have been distributed in English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, and Catalan. Interpreter Robert Alter has stated: "Yehuda Amichai, it has been commented with some equity, is the most broadly deciphered Hebrew writer since King David." Amichai's interpretations into English have been especially mainstream, and his innovative and available style has opened up Hebrew verse to American and English perusers in a radical new manner...READ MORE
