By: Linda Pastan
This poem almost seems like a story told by a troubled soul. It talks about the moral decisions that many of us have to make throughout our life, and how hard these decisions wind up becoming.
One day in a class a teacher posses a question of “if there was a fire in a museum which would you save, a Rembrandt painting of an old woman who hadn’t many years left anyhow?” The title of this poem also give you a clue of what the poem is going to be about and personally I think this is a very hard question to answer.
I would like to say that I would save the old woman, and I hope that I would save the old woman because if I didn’t I would feel guilt for the rest of my life and I would always remember the old woman who I didn’t save.
The theme of this poem is that although you say you would save the old lady, it gets you thinking that if you were in a museum and it caught on fire, and you were under all this pressure, would you in fact save the old lady?
Would you?
Night Watch
By: Rembrant in 1642
I think most of us would save the old lady (as evidenced by our class "poll"), however, I appreciate the question Pastan raises regarding worth. What is worth more? And to whom?
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