Eye Needle
A poem with an allusion to 'a camel through the eye of a needle'?
I need this for an English project. Does anyone know of any poems with a reference to this parable?
This phrase is from the Bible where Jesus says that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich person to go in heaven. The ''Rain Stick'' by Seamus Heaney is such a poem with an allusion to this famous phrase
The Rain Stick
Up-end the stick and what happens next
Is a music that you never would have known
To listen for. In a cactus stalk
Downpour, sluice-rush, spillage and backwash
Come flowing through. You stand there like a pipe
Being played by water, you shake it again lightly
And diminuendo runs through all its scales
Like a gutter stopping trickling. And now here comes
A sprinkle of drops out of the freshened leaves,
Then subtle little wets off grass and daisies;
The glitter-drizzle, almost-breaths of air.
Up-end the stick again. What happens next
Is undiminished for having happened once,
Twice, ten, and thousand times before.
Who cares if all the music that transpires
Is the fall of grit or dry seeds through a cactus?
You are like a rich man entering heaven
Through the ear of a raindrop. Listen now again.
More information on this poem on
http://compassrosebooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-poem-by-seamus-heaney-rain-stick_27.html
Hope I helped 
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