Why I Left The Church Summary

In fact, the poem seems to be told from the point of view of a man who is an adult, perhaps in his late twenties or early thirties, meaning that nearly twenty years have gone by since the time of this event. This shows the reader right away that what the narrator is describing here must be a critical period of his life, otherwise the details of what occurred would not be so fresh in his mind. I feel that this focuses the reader's attention and makes him more aware of what the narrator is talking about.

All of the lines are short, declarative sentences, and every line except for the first one is only three short, one syllable words. These short lines are intentional but not based on mimicking any other poet like T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound. To quote Brooks, “When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.” (Stavros). The poem is structured, so to speak, in free verse, and it is unique in the way the lines interact.

This poem is what i believe to be a long poem, but the section of it that we are looking to is much shorter, with only eight lines. I do believe that in some ways this is a narrative poem in that it tells a story and warns about the idea of the end of the world. I do believe that in some ways this could also be confessional for it expresses his past and current thoughts about what had been going on in society.

The poem does not follow a rhyme scheme or meter, which means that there is rhythm in the poem and it makes the poem more like a song. The poem has four stanza’s and has five lines within each stanza.

reality of age and social position paralyzes his character with fear. The poem opens with six lines

The poem is written in free verse, offers no type of rhyme scheme, and in one long stanza. This contributes to

The poem was written in a way that is similar to an autobiography. The narrator of the poem is telling the story from a first person perspective, mostly speaking in a non-traditional manner. The tone of the poem sounds carefree as if the narrator was having a conversation with the reader. For example “I won 't be keeping myself chaste for long, for when one husband from this world is gone Some Christian

It has a beginning, middle, and an end. The beginning is the first stanza – “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / went down to the beach (to play one day),” – the middle is the next four stanzas – “And Maggie discovered a shell that sang / so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and / Milly befriended a stranded star / whose rays five languid fingers were; / and Molly was chased by a horrible thing / which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and / May came home with a smooth round stone / as small as a world and as large as alone,” – and the end is the final stanza – “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” It has characters – Maggie and Milly and Molly and May – and events occur – “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / went down to the beach (to play one day).”

When people decide to leave a church, it is best to leave for spiritual reason, because God operates in the spirit. Any other reason than spiritual is personal and that is not pleasing in God’s sight, (Rom. 12: 9-18, EVS). The word of God must stand in any matter of conflict or discrediting of character. How does the church handle any accusation other than a spiritual one? How do people determine when jealousy is in the church? How do a person know when the time has come for them to leave a church?

The author uses the poems structure and stanzas to help get her point across. The poem is composed of four stanzas with a total of 25 lines. Each stanza signifies a different part of the child’s life. The stanzas have irregular lengths and structures. The numbers of lines in each stanza vary from five to seven. Piercy separates the pieces of the story by stanzas to tell the girls story so the audience could see how she was treated since birth. For instance the first stanza talks about her birth and adolescent years, while the third and forth stanzas talk about the end of her life.

First if you’re a Christian, church is not something you go to. It’s something you are.

Hello, I’m Natalie Tieman, and I have grown up in the church. I’m the fourth generation in my family to attend St. Paul’s. My discipleship is preceded by that of my parents, my grandparents Jane and the late Gene Baker, and my great grandfather.

What really made me curious about this poem was it showed great emotions and you can feel it. There was a lot of anger in the story because he was being betrayed by his best friend. He was mad and question

In both the story and the poem the main character is a child and it is also told from the perspective of that child. In both examples the child has some sort of older role model that he looks up to. In both pieces

The author uses syntax to create a uniform rhyming scheme. There are eight feet in each line of the poem that are consistent until the end of the poem. Words such as “flow’d” and “scream’d” are used in order to keep balance in the beats; therefore, creating rhythm. The poem is organized into stanzas, each stanza having the first line rhyme with the second and the third line rhyme with the fourth. For example, the first stanza reads: “No stir in the air, no stir in the sea; the ship was still as she could be; her sails from heaven received no motion; her keel was steady in the ocean.” (Lines 1-4) The syntax used by the author helps in the meaning of the poem by setting the tone. By setting the tone of the story, one is able to see the meaning behind