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[1] [2] [3] It is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justifie the wayes of God to men" (1.26). [4] It is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man.
"The Collar" is a poem by Welsh poet George Herbert published in 1633, and is a part of a collection of poems within Herbert's book The Temple. [1] The poem depicts a man who is experiencing a loss of faith and feelings of anger over the commitment he has made to God.
In Spiritual Leadership (1967), John Oswald Sanders published a poem beginning with the words "When God wants to drill a man" and credited it to author anonymous. Sanders' version replaces Angela Morgan's "Nature" with "God" and her feminine pronouns with masculine ones. [1] Excerpt from Sanders' 1967 Version [2] When God wants to drill a man
While the poem is metrically flexible, it essentially displays an iambic pentameter style. [6] The poem draws from Arabian lore, where in the Islamic month of Nous Sha'ban, God takes the golden book of mankind and chooses those dear to Him who He will call in the coming year. Thus indirectly, this is also a poem about a 'blessed death'.
Bailey is known almost exclusively by his one voluminous poem, Festus, first published anonymously in 1839, and then expanded with a second edition in 1845.A vast pageant of theology and philosophy, it comprised in some twelve divisions an attempt to represent the relation of God to man, and to postulate "a gospel of faith and reason combined."
The poem itself is a plea addressed directly to God, who is invoked in his Trinitarian form ("three-person'd God"). The speaker does not suffer from an internal problem here, unlike in a number of Donne's other Holy Sonnets (such as I am a little world made cunningly or O, to vex me ); he is sure of what he needs and how to reach his end goal.
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The poem is an ode, and its subject is the pursuit of the human soul by God's love - a theme also found in the devotional poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. Moody and Lovett point out that Thompson's use of free and varied line lengths and irregular rhythms reflect the panicked retreat of the soul, while the structured, often recurring refrain suggests the inexorable pursuit as it ...