The first thing I noticed about this poem is it followed the "AB" pattern of a regular sonnet. Though it isn't one due to the fact it has twenty-eight lines in it. Another interesting thing that caught my attention is that some words are purposefully capitalized, such as: Faith, Fear, Undying Life, Deity, Immortality, Existence, Death, Being, and Breath. As I kept looking over these words, six of them have a rather lighter or more positive connotation, while the other two have a negative connotation. I wonder, did Emily Bronte do this as a way to personify "Fear" and "Death"? Maybe so because throughout this entire poem I have picked up on a few biblical allusions, one of them obviously being God, but the "thousand creeds" and "Almighty...Deity" could be allusions. When I read the "thousand creeds" part I thought of the Apostle's Creed that is regularly mentioned in a Roman Catholic Mass. Before that was the "Almighty..Deity" and not only does it make me think of God, but of the Holy Spirit that can reside in all of us if we allow it just like she said in line five. When I got to line sixteen, "The steadfast rock of Immortality" it made me wonder is she also pointing at the fact that Jesus Christ said "Upon this rock I shall build my Church"? As I approached the next stanza the first two lines in it sparked the thought of God's endless love for us and how if we accept that it "animates" us. I can understand the use of the word "Pervades" but why use the word "broods"? A definition of brood is: deeply thinking about something that makes one unhappy. Well if a person were to "brood" about God why would that make them unhappy? The last two stanzas made me think of two different books from the Holy Bible. In the sixth stanza how it described the universe before God created it made me think of the book of Genesis. It sparked this thought because God was the only Deity there and how it was all nothing before he created everything. The last stanza makes me think of Revelation because when the time comes God will end everything. In this book there is no more "Death" no more sorrow or suffering but paradise for the righteous and damnation for the wicked. So the big question is, why is the poem call No Coward Soul Is Mine? Is it because if we allow the spirit and presence of God in us we shall not "Fear" anything?
The first thing I noticed about this poem is it followed the "AB" pattern of a regular sonnet. Though it isn't one due to the fact it has twenty-eight lines in it. Another interesting thing that caught my attention is that some words are purposefully capitalized, such as: Faith, Fear, Undying Life, Deity, Immortality, Existence, Death, Being, and Breath. As I kept looking over these words, six of them have a rather lighter or more positive connotation, while the other two have a negative connotation. I wonder, did Emily Bronte do this as a way to personify "Fear" and "Death"? Maybe so because throughout this entire poem I have picked up on a few biblical allusions, one of them obviously being God, but the "thousand creeds" and "Almighty...Deity" could be allusions. When I read the "thousand creeds" part I thought of the Apostle's Creed that is regularly mentioned in a Roman Catholic Mass. Before that was the "Almighty..Deity" and not only does it make me think of God, but of the Holy Spirit that can reside in all of us if we allow it just like she said in line five. When I got to line sixteen, "The steadfast rock of Immortality" it made me wonder is she also pointing at the fact that Jesus Christ said "Upon this rock I shall build my Church"? As I approached the next stanza the first two lines in it sparked the thought of God's endless love for us and how if we accept that it "animates" us. I can understand the use of the word "Pervades" but why use the word "broods"? A definition of brood is: deeply thinking about something that makes one unhappy. Well if a person were to "brood" about God why would that make them unhappy? The last two stanzas made me think of two different books from the Holy Bible. In the sixth stanza how it described the universe before God created it made me think of the book of Genesis. It sparked this thought because God was the only Deity there and how it was all nothing before he created everything. The last stanza makes me think of Revelation because when the time comes God will end everything. In this book there is no more "Death" no more sorrow or suffering but paradise for the righteous and damnation for the wicked. So the big question is, why is the poem call No Coward Soul Is Mine? Is it because if we allow the spirit and presence of God in us we shall not "Fear" anything?
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