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4 Results for The God Of Small Things

1. The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet

In the next stanza, she displays her respect of God and the poetry that God inspires, writing, "And oh ye high flown quills that soar the skies/And ever with your prey still catch your praise."" These lines present the idea that poetry is not only "God-given, " but that it should be a way to praise him as well. But even when reaching out to God, she does ask for one minor thing: "Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours. ... Here she is not referencing or drawing praise from God, but from critics and other "equals"," who judge her as a woman (her physical body, not her soul). ... She wrote...

  • Word Count: 926
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Last Duchess & Porphyria's Lover

All of this is done, while the speaker remarks that "God has not said a word", meaning God has not yet punished him. ... In "My Last Duchess", the woman is killed for not caring about the finer things in life and just enjoying all the small, natural aspects; while in "Porphyria's Lover", the woman is killed for wanting the finer things that her lover can't provide for her. ...

  • Word Count: 738
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

3. The Concealed Work of Art

The "design of darkness" could only exist if "design governs in a thing so small."(Line 14) Since God is said to be governance of all things great and small, the possibility that design doesn't govern in miniscule matter immediately raises the issues that maybe there is no God to order the will of nature at all. ... From the views Frost depicts in this poem it would be fair to extrapolate that he believes the world will end in violent war for coveted things. ... The word "Something" means that Frost finds some uncertain things and he realizes it is the truth; however, he knows nothing abo...

  • Word Count: 1104
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

4. E.B.Browning

- -and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. The poet expresses her love from materialistic to abstract things. From the day to day small needs her loves transcends time, and place. ...

  • Word Count: 538
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School
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