I am doing a poetry project for english..and i just happened to pick Edgar Lee Masters...and his poestry is freakin hard.
we have to pick 3 poems and explicate them..or...pick out the meaning....can someone help me with this one?
THE VILLAGE ATHEIST
YE young debaters over the doctrine
Of the soul’s immortality,
I who lie here was the village atheist,
Talkative, contentious, versed in the arguments
Of the infidels. 5
But through a long sickness
Coughing myself to death
I read the Upanishads and the poetry of Jesus.
And they lighted a torch of hope and intuition
And desire which the Shadow, 10
Leading me swiftly through the caverns of darkness,
Could not extinguish.
Listen to me, ye who live in the senses
And think through the senses only:
Immortality is not a gift, 15
Immortality is an achievement;
And only those who strive mightily
Shall possess it.
No , his poetry is anything but hard. He writes in a very simple style - basically the dead people in the cemetary talking to people passing by. Not hard at all. The particular poem you chose is a little tough. Are you locked into it because I can tell you better one. I know the book intimately.
This is basically the same concept that John Lennon was talking about when he said "God is a concept by which we measure our pain". That the more we are in pain the more we NEED God and believe in him.
This man was an altheist. However when he found himself sick and dying, he suddenly turned to religion - reading not only the works of Christianity but of other religions too. These words stirred him and stayed with him as he was led by "The Shadow" to his death. His message for people who are alive and living "through the senses only" - only believing in what they can see, hear, taste, smell and see is that immortality is an achievement and only those who strive mightly shall possess it - He is not referring to physical immortality but spiritual immortality - the belief that the soul goes on after life. What you should note about this poem is that like most of the others, we do not know this man's name. Why? Because he doesnt feel he earned immortality - or his name on a headstone for everyone to remember. Spirituality came too late for him. He isnt immortalized by a headstone with his name on it. He is just the anonymous village atheist. See??
As I said I am kind of an expert on Spoon River. I first came across it at the age of 16 when I auditioned for a local production of the play and was accepted. I performed many performanced of it, and it has never ever left me. Spoon River enters your soul and dwells there forever once you let it. If you need help choosing other poems - you can write me at deni913@hotmail.com - Pax - C
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Have Jehovah's Witness leaders been doing the same thing?
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What are your thoughts about this?
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