Amichai’s poem gives us a sense of peace and hope by bringing something to life. Personally, when I read the term “child’s play," it is discussing something comparing it to an action that anybody even a child can do. It is a phrase that is a bit sarcastic. Here, Amichai sort of brings the poem back together and I believe he is saying nothing could actually ever be so simple as it was.
In the last stanza, Amichai describes a man who is feeling many emotions and has many characteristics. This man is gentile, feeling good yet also melancholy and is picking up parts of the stone and putting it back together. We do not know who this man is but we know it is someone who “cleanses”, is “whole again, one again”.
Amichai says that all of this work is all simply “childs play” and what needs to be done is a great force and something that surpasses what he can do himself. This is a force that has a supernatural power and not anybody can complete this.
I believe this poem is telling us that even when things don’t seem right it does not mean they can't be fixed. I noticed some contrast in this poem also. The author is very specific on how he wants everything layed out. When it says “fragment to fragment” and then a jigsaw puzzle. There is a contrast between the two that is delicate and then so all over the place. He makes it seem as though this is a task that not many can do and there is an alternate force that must accomplish it.
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