you will greet yourself arriving / at your own door, in your own mirror
-- Speaker (Lines 3-4)

Importance: This line uses the repeated phrase “your own” to enhance the poem’s rhythm as well as compound the relationship between the reader and the self. Here, a door and a mirror are symbolically equated to be aspects of the same idea. You “greet yourself” arriving at home, but also greet your reflection in the mirror as an old friend. Both are presented as divisions between two states of being that are being brought back into harmony.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart / to itself
-- Speaker (Lines 8-9)

Importance: In this line, the word “Give” is used three times in succession. This illustrates that the key idea is not the offerings being given, but the act of charity and generosity itself. By giving wine and bread, the speaker is encouraged to give spiritual and physical nourishment — in whatever form...