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Created by katie.browell
over 10 years ago
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This World is not Conclusion.A Species stands beyond - -Invisible, as Music - -But positive, as Sounds - -It beckons, and it baffles - -Philosophy - - don't know - - And though a Riddle, at the last - - Sagacity, must go - -To guess it, puzzles scholars - -To gain it, Men have borneContempt of GenerationsAnd Crucifixion, shown - - Faith slips - - and laughs, and rallies - -Blushes, if any see - -Plucks at a twig of the Evidence - -And askes a Vane, the way - -Much Gesture, form the Plupit - -Strong Hallelujahs roll - -Narcotics cannot still the ToothThat nibbles on the soul -
Losses faith in an afterlife
Confidence in afterlife
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Not truth worthy sources of faith
Faith desperately attempts to hold on - support itself
Religion, faith, afterlife
Sermons, hymns acts as narcotics - stupefying one into submission - but they cannot ease the gnawing doubts
Rare full stop - indication of conclusivness
'Species' - a few years before Darwins 'On the Origins of Species' was written
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We are attracted, wishing to know BUT nevertheless left disappointed, slightly confused
alliterative B sounds, less ponderous, informal, conversational
Informative
Colloquial 'don't'
Riddle - death itself? We must pass this before understanding if there is an afterlife or not
Faith personified as a young girl - physical movement of tripping
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Over dramatization
Narcotics - drugs - ability to pacify momentarily, numbing effect, ease pain,
Marx - Religion is the opium of the people
Poem
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