Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Greater Love

Thesis:
Soldier have lost God
Soldiers have experienced violence unlike others who stayed at home
The people who stayed home don't and can't truly understand what they went through
Diction:
"God seems not to care;... Cramps them in death's extreme decrepitude." - Lost God
Negative words used repeatedly - Sadness of the loss they feel
"Sings not so soft- .. wind murmuring through raftered loft" "Gentle, and evening clear..." - opposite of war, describing how they feel about God now that he has left them
"you may touch them not" - Can't understand what the soldiers have gone through
"Your hand be pale" - Grown old (people that did not go to war)
"you were never hot nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot" - the people that were full were those that went to war

Violence of war:
"Limbs knife-skewed"
"Eyes Blinded"
""
Greater Love:
Greater love better than that from god because he deserted them.
Now Greater love is more important and God is just wind in the rafters
Gods love is not longer strong has lost - "Lure" and other love has eclipsed it -"Kindness of wooed and wooer seems shame to their love pure."



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