God made men in His own image, in the image
of God mad He him. –Genesis
The Man with the Hoe
..the weight of centuries he leans, Upon his
hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back
the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that
grieves not and that never hopes pg 294
As I read this section of the poem, I envisioned
a man working in a field of some type of crop, the man is hunched over using
his tool to get his required job done. He does this with no sense of
excitement, joy, or with dignity. You can tell with his posture and the
emptiness look on his face he is unhappy.
The
poem then goes on to question if this is the world that God made, envisioned,
and wanted?
How will you ever straighten up this shape;
Touch it again with immortality and the light, rebuild in the music and dream
pg 295.
The
poem then asks God to come and save the world and bring it back to the way he envisioned
it.
The
Sower
Who is it coming on the brown slop, pg
296
Flinging their foolish glory on the air – He
hides their nakedness, he give them bed, and by his alms their hungry mouths
are fed. Pg 297
This
poem is describing a empty dirt hill, that is then planted with seeds and once
the seeds grow the hill is no longer empty. With the seeds that grew into
plants or crops, they are now able to feed the people that are hungry. He is then described as a “Earth-god,” someone
that is here on earth and able to help feed the hungry with the land, seeds,
and crops that are grown.
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