Read this excerpt from Diane Di Prima’s poem "Buddhist New Year Song." I could see the planet from which we had come I could not remember (then) what our purpose was but remembered the name Mahakala, in the dawn in the dawn confronted Shiva, the cold light revealed the “mindborn” worlds What is the purpose of these allusions in this excerpt? to show the speaker of the poem’s intelligence to explain the purpose of the dawn to depict the importance of religious faith to reference figures of destruction and creation
