Blog Post 21; Ceremony Complete

My class and I finally finished the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko this week, with its rather surprising and almost "Cliff hanging" feel of an ending. I was very unsure what to expect at the end of the novel and was pleasantly surprised to see how much is resolved just in the last fave pages. I was amazed how Silko made the ending resolve, but still made it have a depth to the ending that left many things unsaid, left to be thought over by the reader. The poem at the very end of the novel is an excellent example. Even two days later, I continue to mull over the true meaning behind the poem. The poem made me feel resolved and made me feel like the story had come to end, but I can tell that the poem holds much more than that, a deeper, underlying meaning. So I once again find my self battling with the deeper meaning of this novel even after it has been finished, which is what I think, Silko really intended this novel to do in the first place. She has succeed with me.

"Whirling darkness/ started its journey/ with its witchery/and/its witchery/ has returned upon it./ Its witchery/ has returned/ into its belly./ Its own Witchery/ has returned all around it./ Whirling darkness/ has come back on itself./ It keeps all its witchery/ to itself./ It doesn't open its eyes/ with its witchery./ It has stiffened/ with the effects of its own witchery./ It is dead for now.../ Sunrise/ accept this offering./ Sunrise." (Silko 242-244)