Old Jade Bracelet
Can someone please help me analyze this poem? I'm desperate and ANYTHING will help!?
Ok so the poem is Spaces We Leave Empty by Cathy Song and its posted below.
The jade slipped from my wrist
with the smoothness of water
leaving the mountains,
silk falling from a shoulder,
melon slices sliding across the tongue,
the fish returning.
The bracelet worn since my first birthday
cracked into thousand-year-old eggshells.
The sound could be heard
ringing across the water
where my mother woke in her sleep crying thief.
Her nightgown slapped in the wind
as he howled clutching his hoard.
The cultured pearls.
The bone flutes.
The peppermint disks of jade.
The clean hole
in the center, Heaven:
the spaces we left empty
Now, what I need to know is what does the bracelet symbolize in this poem? And also can someone explain the meaning of the title? Or at least make something up from their own head that could explain the title?
I'll be super super grateful for anything anyone can explain to me. Thank youu!
I take it that the bracelet that slipped from the wrist of the speaker was composed of round pieces of green jade stone, more or less in the shape of washers or Life Savers (the peppermint candy).
There are two spaces referred to. One is the space in the center of the circular jade pieces of which the bracelet is composed and the other is the space in the middle of the bracelet itself that allows it to be put on the wrist. The first allows the bracelets to be made, the second allows it to be worn. In other words non-material is what makes the material valuable or useful.
This is another way of saying that what is not there or not evident gives meaning and value to what is. That is a religious analogy. The creator of the bracelet by stringing the jade and by making the bracelet in a circle through which the wrist can be slid is acknowledging some larger force, called "Heaven" in the next to the last line.
This space also allows the bracelet to destruct. It is sent back to its maker, as it were. The bracelet is the world, life, the physical things that we see and deal with, the non holy.
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