PRAYER the Churches banquet, Angels age,
Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth ;
Engine against th' Almightie, sinner's towre,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six daies world-transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear ;
Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,
Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,
Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,
The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud,
The land of spices, something understood.
I feel that this poem jumps around from one topic to another. I find it hard to read and interpret its message. I like the line that says, "God breath in man returning to his birth." I believe that this line alludes to the fact that non-sinners live for eternity in heaven. Then the next stanza implies that sinners don't get revived. This poem is a very religious poem.
ReplyDeleteA very good poem.
ReplyDeleteThe imagery of the poem describes different kinds of prayers well like "soul in paraphrase" indicating how sometimes people pour themselves out in prayer or "reversed thunder" showing how the show booms upward instead of down to us. In the last line, I like the last two words "something understood" because it shows how prayer helps use gain something or understand something ourselves.
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