Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Norman MacCaig Assisi Stanza 2
- "A priest explained"
- Focus on priest
- Representative of the church
- "How clever it was of Giotto"
- Priest fawns over the artist,
ignores beggar
- Mood changes
- Pity elicited by beggar to anger from the
priests actions
- "His frescoes tell stories that would reveal to the illiterate the
goodness of God and the suffering of His Son"
- Hypocrisy
- The priest should be
devoted to the teachings
of the Bible but is totally unaffected by the beggar
- The priest likes the depiction of these
teachings but not the reality of practicing
them himself
- "I understood the explanation and
the cleverness"
- Caustic tone
- MacCaig is offended by the
priests intellectual pride when he
discusses Giotto's work.
- The priest is neither humble or
compassionate
- MacCaig implies intelligence without
kindness has no value