John F. Dean????

[FallingStar]

I was just wondering about that poem by him called Driving to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. Since I once heard Bono reciting that writing in a radio show from the 80's I kept asking myself what this line means:


"[...] Look down on Dublin from the hills around and lights could be a million Christmas trees, still firs standing, while in the sky a glow as if of dawn. [...]"


At first I thought that it would just mean air pollution since the whole story deals with such 'brutality' [...Pain crawls like slime through blood and into limbs...], but now I think somehow that it could mean a sort of 'peace' or 'tranquility' that nobody really sees but that is there nevertheless......Or a kind of 'holiness' because of the special night......

I don't know, maybe I just start getting crazy or stuff, but this question spins around in my head all the time......

 

[One Tree Still]

I think the whole poem is a juxtaposition of what Christmas really means and what it has become.

 

[FallingStar]

I think the whole poem is a juxtaposition of what Christmas really means and what it has become.

Certainly.