What does this poem mean? I dont understand it at all and I have to analyze it f

Question:

What does this poem mean? I dont understand it at all and I have to analyze it for school?

Nightpiece
James Joyce

Gaunt in gloom,
The pale stars their torches,
Enshrouded, wave.
Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint illume,
Arches on soaring arches,
Night's sindark nave.

Seraphim,
The lost hosts awaken
To service till
In moonless gloom each lapses muted, dim,
Raised when she has and shaken
Her thurible.

And long and loud,
To night's nave upsoaring,
A starknell tolls
As the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud,
Voidward from the adoring
Waste of souls.

Thank You!!! I'm not trying to cheat, I just do not understand it at all!! Just steer me towards the right track...

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

i think theres something to do with a dream, a nightmare perhaps, a nightmare where there it is so dark that the star is the only light.. there is no peace. people suffering from here to there. people fighting for their right and people dying for their right. i don't know. :D

or maybe it just says that you could never trust the night coz its not safe going out alone in there when the stars are your only light and there must be violence somewhere and you might get involved. :D

thats what i think. :)

hope it can help. :)