Resentment towards God in the Religous Poem, Tenebrae

A common theme in many great works of literature is that of forgiveness. Through studying some of these classics, we can learn the lesson that forgiving others, lets you to let go of hate and anger, and to draw nearer to God; this helps people to be happier and to obtain peace, even in terrible circumstances. First, in Left to Tell, Immaculée was able to find comfort and peace, when she found it in her heart to forgive. Second, in Blood Brothers, Elias found comfort and strength in the understanding that Christ loves and forgives all. Third, in Les Miserables, we see the results of being selfless and choosing to forgive. In this essay, we will examine this fundamental theme in the books Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza, Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour, and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

The great awakening was a religion revival that occurred in the 1730s and 1740s. It started in England and then gradually made its way over to the Americans colonies. During this time, many different preacher and religious speaker went around and gave speeches to the people. Jonathan Edwards was one ofs2xwds those speakers. He wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” during this period and eloquently delivered to his fellow churchman. In his sermon, he focused on the consequences of leading a sinful life, the power of god and repenting of ones sins in order to be saved from the hell. The purpose behind this piece of writing was to depict to people the extent to which God helps them, as well as the extent to which they could be punished for not following his commands. This piece was aimed at those who lacked belief in God as well as churches. In order to be persuasive, Edwards’s uses figurative language like imagery, similes, repetition, metaphor and rhetorical questions to emphasize the severity

The Figurative Language in Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" The orations of Jonathan Edwards employ multiple, useful figurative phrases. His analogies force an exaggerated view on the listener's’ thoughts. His similes and metaphors relate the imaginable to the unimaginable. His imagery and hyperboles enlightens the mind to feel the emotions of his speech. He is able to fortify his elaborate homilies with this type of turbulent figurative language.

Death perception is what sets apart the wise from the foolish and the sensitive from the weak minded; this statement is both true within life and the epic poem Beowulf. Many statements within the spectrum of death in the current world relates and dates back to this one poem, even more so now through the translation of Seamus Heaney. Passed along as a folk tale from as early as the 5th century to the 9th century, and then composed in about the 10th century, Beowulf creates a solid base for many of today’s present and worldly ideals. Countless themes are taken from this poem, but one theme that many people may glaze over is the extremely morbid tone of death and its purpose. Used as an archetype for the audience, the purpose of this morbid theme of death is to help understand and cope with mortality, especially during that time period. Accepting/ understanding is wiser than foolishly attempting to escape or cheat death as the poem blatantly proves after closely analyzing its purpose of discussing fate and death before the battles; choosing to always stand by good morals and actions; and the major significance of the main character’s death along with a couple counterarguments. By examining each aspect, the reader will gain the realization as to why Seamus Heaney decided to create this theme that he did with the direction from “The Beowulf poet [that] was captivated by the imagery of death” (Tanke 356).

The negative side of this poem is an abusive drunken father. This is prevalent to his father’s obvious drunkenness. This is tied together with the image of a knuckle, beating, belt buckle, and negativity in the word “death.” These

In this poem, “Under the Feet of Jesus” the development of Estrella’s character consisted of many conditions. She went through several stages as in anger, curiosity, realization, and happiness. Estrella is going through all these different mood changes because she notices different events in her life. Her character’s literary element is tone. Here are some reasoning’s on why this theory is said.

Near the end of the poem, Decaul makes a dejected image as he speaks of “life” being similar to “dew” and the “disappearing dew” (26,27,28). By saying this, Decaul shows us how fast a life comes and ends. The many different unfortunate and unhappy images the soldier witnesses, help the reader to connect and understand the overall meaning of what life is like during the war. It displays how the soldier would describe his life. By relating life to dew, the reader sees how melancholic a person can potentially become due to war. These images guide the reader to connect with the author and detect the unhappy emotions specified in the poem.

A strong masculine rhyme consisting of a single stressed syllable “My Tongue is generations dead, My Nose defiles a comely head;”(5-6) gives a weight to these lines and provides rhetorical emphasis. It creates a break by bonding these lines tightly to each other. Because it is a perfect rhyme, it sounds a bit cutesy and childish, so it creates levity to contrast and enlighten the theme of death. The eye rhyme, “For hearkening to carnal evils My Ears have been the very devil’s”(7-8) creates more dissonance and thus disjunction in the reader. This irritation allows passage back into a state where it easier to empathize with the devil and evil. “More furtive then the Hand in low And vicious venery-Not so!”(11-12) exemplifies an imperfect or partial or approximate or slant or pararhyme which supports the theme of deception and dissent articulated by the words, “furtive”(11) and, “Not so!”(12).

Therefore, most of the Stanza and the 10th line focus on introducing the reader into the problem and the perpetrators of the violence. The use of religion is not only symbolic to the inevitable suffering of the Latin Americans at the Poets country but also is ironical to the end times which marks massive violence acts against humanity. The aspect is brought to form by the last two lines which liken the treatment of the Indian bodies being killed as rotten fruits, thrown in a pile of garbage. The words rotten and garbage bring out the ugly scene of dead bodies surrounded by flies that feed on the decomposed material, an immense feeling of empathy towards the dead.

This is expressed by the multiple examples of old men whom regret certain aspects of their lives and defy death even when they know their time is up. The speaker is urging his father to fight against old age and death. The meaning and subject of the poem influence the tone and mood. The tone is one of frustration and insistence. Thomas is slightly angry and demanding. His words are not a request, they are an order. The mood of the poem is is serious and solemn due to the poem focusing mainly on the issue of death. This mood and tone is created by words such as “burn”(2), “Grieved”(11) and “rage”(3) along with phrases such as “crying how bright”(7), “forked no lightning”(5), “near death”(13) and “fierce tears”(17). The insistent feeling is also created by the repetition of the lines “Do not go gentle into that good night”(1), and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”(3). The figurative language used also affect how the meaning, tone and mood are interpreted.

Within many poems in “Experience” images of religion are juxtaposed to those of “dew” which represents materialism. This is used to show the corruptness of the images of the Church and religion as being simple and ever-present. Throughout the “songs of Innocence” there are not many ongoing themes, there is only one on-going theme, that of the Church being ever-present. In “Experience” many other themes are present, such as materialism, giving a more complex image.

This project, primarily intends to poetically reconstruct events from the story of the life of Daniel, a God-fearing man, extremely knowledgeable, wise, from a royal bloodline who faced extreme difficulties and immensely dire circumstances because of his faith. Under the continually changing kings, who had overthrown his homeland, Daniel, unexpectedly became among the most powerful people in the entire land, after the Kings made use of his God-given gift of interpreting dreams. In the face of radical change, Daniel thrived when thought humanly impossible considering his odds. In the midst of his troubles, he trusted God, never shrinking, even while in a den of lions, despite every logical reason to fear and doubt that God would rescue him.

The poem ‘To die at the Springs of El-Hamma’ talks about the starling as the symbol for soldiers. Continuous form poetry is written in free-verse. The technique

A resistant reading of the poem uncovers the idea that religion, specifically the Judeo-Christian religious tradition, is intrinsically harmful and retrogressive in nature. If the ‘snake’ is interpreted as a synecdoche for Judaeo-Christian religious tradition as a whole, a profoundly negative opinion of such an ideology is formed throughout the poem. Without the ‘snake’ that is this religion, there would be no “pain and suffering”. The poem asks, “what could bear such a weight”, interrogating the conscience of religion, implying guilt on its behalf. Furthermore, the imagery suggested in the second stanza surrounding the snake’s “shadow” evokes negative ideas concerning the nature of the religion, which is further bolstered by its ability to “separate itself” from this shadow, and to “move on

The poem is in form of a villanelle, consisting of the rhyme scheme ABA throughout the poem. There are two major extended metaphors in the poem- the “day” which stands for a person’s lifespan and all their actions and memories; and the dark “night” which stands for afterlife or the void. These metaphors are also the starting rhymes for the poem (for line A and line B), and thus all the following lines rhyme with these metaphors. This shows the constant cycle of day and night thus life and death, emphasizing on the inevitability and continuity of this process. Also in the first stanza, the metaphor for death is expressed as “good night” (in line one), “close of day” (in line two) and “dying of the light” (line three), where all are placed at the end of their respective lines; thus again showing what lies for all at the time of their end.