Essay Archive - God Speaks Through The Mouths Of Poets
God Speaks Through The Mouths Of Poets
Every poem has an element of God in it's words. Just as God spoke
through the writings of Peter or Matthew, elements of His word are in the
beautiful themes in poetry. In this essay, I will compare the poems of
William Blake and William Wordsworth with the written Word of God, in five
poems: The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper, The Tyger, My Heart Leaps Up, and
London 1802. My aim is to show that the writings of great poets are truly
the words of God. Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made
thee? These begin the words....
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