The moon rolls over the roof and falls behind my house, and the moon does neither of these things,
I am talking about myself.
It’s not possible to get off to sleep or the subject or the planet, nor to think thoughts.
Better barefoot it out the front. door and lean from the porch across the privets and the palms into the washed-out creation, a dark place with two particular bright clouds dusted (query) by the moon, one’s mine the other’s an adversary, which may depend on the wind, or something.
A long moment stretches, the next one is not on time. Not unaccountably the chill of the planking underfoot rises. in the throat, for it’s part the night sky empties the whole of it’s contents down. Turn on a bare heel, close the door behind on the author, cringing demiurge, who picks up his litter and his tools and paces me back to bed, stealthily in step.
Continuum: anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition to a diffrerent condition, without any abrupt changes or discontinuities
In this poem, Curnow explains the hardness of poem. He is waiting for inspiration for his poem and he is bored about thid and wants to sleep. He explains that writing a poem is an endless cycle. He personifies moon as a symbol for himself which creates a restless mood. The poet can not rest until he finished his poem. “I am talking about myself” this sentence suggests the reader that the poet is lonely and isolated. His source for inspiration is nature in this poem and he sais “Better bare-foot it out the front” because he wants to connect directly with the nature. He can not concentrate anything because of his restless mood. “washed-out creation” and “dark-place” imageries suggest that he wants to find sth unique. “A long moment stretches, the next one is not on time.” this sentence means that the poet doesn’t notice the time had gone. Curnow used “(query)” because he want to explain his sense of questioning. The “cringing demiurge” is the