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Aug 25, 2021 · Aug 25, 2021. 1 min read. You, the Unbreakable Water. Me: Hey God. God: Hey John. Me: I'm about to break. God: Why do you think that is? Me: Because life just keeps getting harder. God: Then you need to become softer. Me: Huh? God: Here is the thing: glass is hard. but it can shatter. easily when dropped. rock is hard. but it can be broken.
- John Roedel
God: Becoming who I created you to be! A person of light and love and charity and hope and courage and joy and mercy and grace and compassion. I made you for more than the shallow pieces you have decided to adorn yourself with that you cling to with such greed and fear. Let those things fall off of you. I love you!
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Previously, we offered some classic religious poems; now, we’re thinking specifically about God and Jesus. The following classic poems are all about God, but they span over a thousand years of English literature and range from narrative poems to short lyrics to meditations and dream-visions.
- God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins. ‘God’s Grandeur’ reflects on the physical world as a book written by God. The speaker describes the natural world, as created by God, and in which his presence runs.
- Paradise Lost by John Milton. ‘Paradise Lost’ is John Milton’s epic poem, written in blank verse, and published in 1667. It is ten books long, stretching for over ten thousand lines.
- The Dream of the Rood by Anonymous. ‘The Dream of the Rood’ is an Old English dream poem. It depicts how the cross felt during the crucifixion of Christ.
- Some keep the Sabbath going to Church by Emily Dickinson. ‘Some keep the Sabbath going to Church’ is an interesting poem in which the speaker rethinks the idea of going to church and what it can mean when one is at home.
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‘The Eternal Goodness’ by John Greenleaf Whittier is a religious poem about how the speaker’s faith differs from that of his companions. The speaker indicates from the first lines that, in some way (that’s elaborated on as the poem progresses), his faith is different from his friends. They all believe in God, but his friends have a different view o...
‘The Eternal Goodness’ by John Greenleaf Whittier is a seventeen-stanza poem that is divided into quatrains. These quatrains follow a simple and predictable pattern of ABAB. This is known as an alternate rhyme scheme, one that’s found in poetry from many different generations and around the world. Much of the poem is written in perfect trochees. Th...
In this poem, the poet makes use of a few literary devices. These include but are not limited to: 1. Allusion: this poem is filled with religious allusions, many of which are complicated to unpack. 2. Alliteration: the repetitionof the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words, for example, “logic linked” in line two of stanza two. 3....
Stanzas One and Two
In the first lines of the poem, the speaker makes it clear that they are addressing a group of “friends.” They tell these people, who they clearly care about, that together they have all walked the path of God. They have a “zeal for God” that the speaker shares and admires. He loves them for it as he loves humankind (something his friends share a love for as well). The poet goes on to note that the speaker doesn’t like “dissent” and feels that a doubt (presumably about God) is “wrong.” His fr...
Stanzas Three and Four
The speaker suggests that he is not perfect. His “human hands are weak,” a metaphorfor his soul/morality. It’s hard for him to always conform perfectly to the “creeds” of religion (something his friends seem capable of). There are times, the speaker notes, that his heart wants him to do something different than what his friends’ support or are telling him to do. There is a curious allusion to “words ye bid me speak” in the third stanza that may indicate something specific (but is not at this...
Stanzas Five and Six
The speaker goes on to note that he walks the path of religion differently than his friends do. They “tread with boldness shod,” as though they’ve given up some of their passion and, perhaps, curiosity. He, on the other hand, walks with “bare, hushed feet” that are not confined to a single path (as his friends want to confine “the love and power of God”). They have a certain way of belief that he finds confining. His friends focus on God’s justice and acts of power, it seems, while the speake...
Readers who enjoyed this poem should also consider reading some other John Greenleaf Whittier poems. For example: 1. ‘Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, 1862’ by John Greenleaf Whittier– an optimistic poem on the end of slavery and the future. Other related poems include: 1. ‘To a Friend with a Religious Vocation’ by Elizabeth Jennin...
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The Creation. James Weldon Johnson. 1871 –. 1938. And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely—. I'll make me a world. And far as the eye of God could see.
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Feb 22, 2013 · The Christ-Poem in John. Arguably the best known and most influential passage dealing with Christology in the New Testament is the Prologue of the Gospel of John, 1:1-18. It is also probably the most studied and discussed passage – even more than the Christ poem in Philippians 2:6-11.
