Summary Of Preface To God's Determinations By Edward Taylor

The poem also uses end rhyme to add a certain rhythm to the poem as a whole. And the scheme he employs: aabbc, aabd, aabbad. End rhyme, in this poem, serves to effectively pull the reader through to the end of the poem. By pairing it with lines restricted to eight syllables. The narrator creates an almost nursery-rhyme like rhythm. In his third stanza however, his last line, cutting short of eight syllables, stands with an emphatic four syllables. Again, in the last stanza, he utilizes the same technique for the last line of the poem. The narrator’s awareness of rhyme and syllable structure provides the perfect bone structure for his poem’s rhythm.

The first stanza paints a picture of a dark forest at night with a fire and a tyger running through the forest, here the writer is using his artistic skills to create a picture in the readers mind. The first stanza asks who could make such evil in the world as a rhetorical question, I say this as you fear evil and the last line says “Could frame thy fearful symmetry” also “what immortal hand or eye” shows that something that never dies must have made evil, this being God. The second stanza ask who dares make this evil and why have they made this evil as another rhetorical question, I say this as the last line again has an important quote “what the hand dare seize the fire ?” The poem then go’s on to question this evil more and asks many questions but doesn’t find any answers. But why is the poem about experience ?

October, and analyzes the nature around him. At the end of the poem, he states that

The tone and mood of the poem also has a reaction witht e reader. It helps the reader appricate the poem when speaking out loud through the word choice and diction. The poem also uses metephores and imagry, like “Oxygen,” but also uses similys as well; “small and tough’ they flutter, bend like bird’s wing finding” (Jones

The Bible states, “For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible” (Colossians 1:16). William Blake wrote poems about this very subject. In his twin poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, Blake uses different literary techniques such as sound, imagery and symbolism to echo the common theme of creation along with how it is viewed differently.

In Estable we see a poet who does not rhyme to impress but to express. He is after all just speaking his mind.

Rhyme contributes to the pattern of sounds in a poem that is usually used at the end of the poetic lines.

Poems can have multiple meanings to them, often times offering inspiration. A poem about the miracle of eternal life can generate a feeling of awestruck wonder. Another about the power of God’s abundant creatures uproots many questions of how God designed such magnificence. God sent the Lamb, Jesus Christ, to save us from our sin which acts as a wall separating us from God. Christ died on the cross for all people and because of this, fences will be replaced with unity. Creation glorifies God with beautiful mystery in William Blake’s “Tyger Tyger”, as a gift meant for eternity in John Donne’s “Death, be not Proud”, and as unity with God with no barriers in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall.”

“The Universe is a plot of God.” Is one of the main ideas expressed throughout “Eureka a Prose Poem” in which Edgar Allan Poe expresses his thoughts on the creation and purpose of the universe (Poe). As a writer Poe has been known to be a man of the arts, a poet. “Eureka” is truly one of its own among Poe’s works, especially since it was his last major work before his death(. A “Prose Poem” he called it. Although he was not expectant of his death, “Eureka” seems to be his last testament of what he believes is the collective universe. Not surprisingly, God has the same occupation in the universe as his, God is a writer. As a man of thought he left this earth with a final testament to the world in which he wishes to explain the universe for all those who seek the truth (Poe Preface).Eureka is not only an explanation of Poe’s understanding of life based on his experiences; but a reassurance that all creations in the universe have a reason for existence.

This chapter contains more meditation than anecdote. In June, the narrator ponders the smallest things—red blood cells in a goldfish’s tail, blooming plankton, the horsehair worm, molecules, and atoms. In the intricacy of the universe, she finds confirmation of God’s presence and plan: ‘‘Beauty itself is the fruit of the creator’s exuberance that grew such a tangle.’’

Furthermore, he proposes two answers on how the conincidence might have happenend. He suggests that a "design of darkness," an evil power, delectated by conceiling a bad deed in the color of goodness, is to be held responsible. Yet, a spider killing an insect is a fairly common sight and in no way spectacular. This would imply, that the designer, God, or whatever you might want to call it, himself, besides all the beauty on earth, also created destruction. This is a shocking picture and differs from most peoples' image of a creator which is what makes this poem so powerful and striking. His second idea would be that there is no order and design to life at all. If this small example of destruction was not the work of some evil force, then -so his argumentation- there can be no God or goodness leading the small things on earth. Consequently, if small things on earth are not governed by a good force, the possibility of no god or no design at all is given.

Lastly, the poem uses the literary device rhyme scheme to demonstrate its theme. The first place that this can be seen is in the line “old age should burn and rave at close of day”. This line is one of the first in the rhyme scheme. This poem is a villanelle, which has a very specific rhyme scheme. This is a difficult rhyme scheme to use in English because there aren’t that many words that rhyme. It takes a lot of skill for a writer to create an emotion poem with this form. The use of this rhyme scheme helps to keep the entire poem connected. A second example of the effect this rhyme scheme has is in the quote “and you, my father there on the sad height; Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray”. These are 2 of the final lines of the poem. These lines reveal to the reader who the poem is about, and why the subject matter is so important

The poem begins with a statement which is repeated 3 times throughout the poem in line 1, 5 and 11 which created rhythm. This helps the reader to come back to that phrase and be able to fully understand the depth of what the writer is feeling.

God is the Creator of nature and the visible world seen around us. The Bible opens with the words “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Psalm 95:3-6 says, "For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is His also. The sea is His, and He made it: and His hands formed the dry land."

‘Mounted in the scarlet’ he saw the world and worded it in his poems, never blurring its hard actuality, but never debasing to mere actuality its ultimately mysterious news of God. As an "incomprehensible certainty" he reverenced God, and in his best works every aspect of poetic language incarnates without limiting that inscrutable yet intensely distinct mystery that formed the center of his life and faith.”