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Early in the poem, Jarman points out the “sermon’s trenchant commentary on the world’s ills” (2-3), illustrating a mutilation of the connectedness of the congregation focusing instead on the very real but nonetheless generic ills of the world. Furthermore, the phrase “hand-wringing” (4) seems to describe the shaking of hands as the congregation members greet each other with the peace of Christ, again listing the routine of the congregation. Although, it appears to be more inclined towards a description of a helpless, passive anxiety that corresponds well with a sermon designed to impose guilt without inspiring action. Jarman goes on to compare the persistent nature of sin even in moments of peace with “motes of dust ride, clinging” (8). In this line, Jarman suggests that the congregation is sinful even after all the doctrinal procedure done to become clean from sin. Even the structure of the octave suggests a conventional and never changing sonnet form with 14 lines, a perfect Italian rhyming scheme, and a fascinating iambic pentameter alone, that inspires nothing more than an

Throughout the poem, Dunn recollects and remembers the memories, however, the use of the word ‘’wait’’ could symbolise the wait involved in grieving, finally accepting that your loved one is gone and beginning to piece your life back together. The repetition of ‘wait’ in line 13, in reference to an absurd forgiveness shows us that Dunn blames himself for his Wife’s death, and it symbolises the amount of guilt he is carrying, especially when combined with the line above in which Dunn begins to resort to desperation through the use of the verb ‘offering me’ followed by the triad ‘my flesh, my soul, my skin’ which could symbolise the ultimate sacrifice. In line 7, ‘A symmetry of husbands, each redesigned’ shows the imperfections that Dunn believes he has, not even symmetry, the idea of an exactness to two halves, could stop Dunn being redesigned. It could also symbolise, through the idea of husbands, the huge workload that was placed on one man. This links with the triads placed in the poem, the idea of constant simultaneous actions, ‘stand, and wait, and cry’, ‘foresight, prayer and hope’, having to juggle the knowledge of

He allowed me to see after being blind for so many years. In a way, He completed me. I still struggle with my relationship, but heck whose relationship is perfect? Janie experienced a similar feeling when she met Tea Cake. He did not entertain or pacify her. He opened her mind to let her dreams come out. He encouraged her. She truly fell in love. She did not become complacent to another man or to her own fears. I believe that is what is a key factor in making a relationship healthy. Being able to push and encourage thoughts and goals. In times when I am insecure and unsure of myself, God puts me right back on my feet. It is easy to give up and become complacent again, but He is right next to me encouraging me to be better. Gods eyes are watching me. When Joe dies she is freed, “Besides she liked being lonesome for a change.” (90) She was no longer confined. Just how I was confined by my peer’s judgement. Everyone told her that she needs a man and she can’t be lonely, but she ignored them. Janie’s attitude in life excites me. In the beginning of the book when she comes back walking into town she is ridiculed and laughed at. The women are hollering “What she doin come back in dem overhalls? Where’s her dress?” (2) Janie pays no mind.

unfamiliar with the new world that has been placed around them. The novel S​old,​b​y Patricia McCormick, begins with a young girl named Lakshmi, living in a small village in Nepal with her mother, baby brother, and an unworthy step­father. Even though she is dreadfully poor, she is happy and lives a life of wonder and imagination with her best friend, but all too soon, everything changes when the monsoons destroy the family crops. The story continues with Lakshmi leaving to earn money to support her family and learning an unbelievable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. This novel taught me the importance of making sacrifices for loved ones and finding companions

God only cries for the living, Cause it’s the living that are left to carry on. Maybe we’re not meant to understand, Till we meet up in the Promised Land. God only cries for the living, Cause it’s the living that are so far from home.

The passage from the poem and the quote from the Bible have the same teaching; one can only get themselves to heaven, and nothing one has on earth matters in heaven. Later on in the poem the author makes another reference to Christianity where he says “death leaps at fools who forget their God. He who lives humbly has angels from Heaven to carry him courage and strength and belief...” (106-108). This is saying someone who is selfish and does not give any gratitude will not be blessed like someone who is always thankful to God.

In this, one could see that the speaker might be talking about death: “And when at Night –“; and how the speaker prefers the comfort of his/her faith over the comforts of the world: “I guard My Master’s Head - / ‘Tis better than the Eider-Duck’s / Deep Pillow – to have shared-” (13-16). The tone of this poem ranges from emptiness, to fullness, to joy, to complete satisfaction, and one can follow this progression through the stanzas. In the beginning, the subject, or character, was flat

From a Christian perspective, one can already see no ethics or morality in the poem. Genesis 2:15, states “The Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” If we, as humans place third in the Great Chain of beings, and are called to care for the earth, then we should pursue this vision. On the Contrary, in The Great Chain of Being: The

Poetry for centuries has been a gateway for incognito artists to display their sorrow and jubilance. As for the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, her poetry was majority sorrow; the poem “Sonnet-ballad”, written in 1949, depicts a young woman's lover going off to war and his original psyche never returning home after the war. The male lover in the poem felt obligated to serve his country; the man in the poem didn’t break free of the social constructs at the time and felt as if he had no free will. Gwendolyn Brooks later in her life became a strong activist for the African-American people during times of the Civil Rights Movement, the poet fought against social normalities to help her community to gain an equal footing (Hobby). The poet uses her unique ability for illustrating through words to construe how lack of choice in a person’s life can affect a person so negatively, it can maim a person forever.

Theme of the poem by Ted Kooser, "Abandoned Farmhouse" (p. 1062) The "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser, had religion in the theme, and I think this suggested that the farmhouse and the people in it lost hope. In the first stanza, the poets use of alliteration; "Bible, with a broken back" (5), makes me wonder if the man was really "God-fearing" (4), or if he had merely come to a time of desperation. The farmhouse was left a mess, and with every clue the poets dictates, the mystery of what happened to the family in the house are still unknown.

(127) Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!” (128) There is a verse in the bible that when we are born into this world, we are born with problems as well. But we are not born to hate, we are born to love and with good intentions. This portion of the poem is simple like a prayer and a tribute to those in need of

In the third stanza, Hardy states: “But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain / And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?” Immediately in this stanza, he realizes that there is no point to human pain and suffering, because he can 't find evidence that humans ' pain has meaning to God. He dismisses the idea brought about by the first two stanzas, and admits his faith in meaning is crushed. He’s lost his hope that he’s held onto for so long, and there’s no “joy” left. He comments that his hope was “the best hope ever sown” because belief in the significance and universal importance of human life was a beautiful lie spread throughout humanity. However, the third line of the poem reads: “—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,” symbolizing happiness and optimism, which are obstructed by the reality that nothing happens for a reason. The sun and rain he mentions represent the beautiful, seemingly significant things in life. However, the love and the beauty the narrator has experienced are all rendered meaningless by the insignificant misery of his lifetime. The “Crass Casualty” is the inane and pointless pain he’s experienced, along with every other human who has lived on earth. The worst part is that the pain lacks an origin of reason, and doesn’t matter to whatever God Hardy wants to believe in. Scholar E. S. Ownbey discusses how Hardy struggled to conform to the religious expectations of his time. He says that “a number of Thomas Hardy’s poems are built on

Kenneth Paradis, a student from Wilfrid Laurier states, “... : the protagonist faces a crisis that undermines his or her illusion of self-sufficiency, there is a period of despair, and then, overwhelmed and often at the point of suicide, he or she cries out to God and finds a measure of peace through faith and grace. Things such as the introduction of an innocent child character for the single purpose of being the victim of a murder sufficiently horrific to generate an appropriately profound spiritual crisis in the protagonist may seem a bit coldly calculated to a reader unfamiliar with evangelical conventions, but it falls well within the venerable evangelical tradition of moral sensationalism, in which graphic depictions of human sin, depravity, and suffering—true pictures of fallen human nature—are seen as legitimate means if the end is helping people convert or recommit to faith” (Paradis 124). He explains that people who are suffering through tragic and wretched times need faith in order to no longer have the depression that detains them from living life to its fullest. The poem “God, Where are You?” has an unspecified character who appears to be in a similar condition to Mack and they start to doubt God’s existence. Despite not knowing what the character in the poem has experienced, it is evident that this person is depressed on the title alone. It is more clear when Gilbreath writes, “God, Where are You? / I haven’t seen You in weeks. / I listen… No one speaks”

Throughout the beginning of the poem there are religious undertones Coleridge uses words like bended knee and reverential to highlight a religious belief and perhaps a plea to God to cure the “Pains of Sleep” this is interesting as he seems to feel “humbled” by the spirit presence. He mentions being weak but realises he is blest by this power. The religious undertone suggests to me a feeling of utter helplessness.

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