Topic > Comparing Pope, Blake and Eliot - 767

Pope's way of dealing with life and its problems seemed to be in the theory of leaving everything to God, and "whatever is, is right". Ultimately God's plan will be fulfilled and nothing will change or deviate the outcomes of your life from what He has planned. In Pope's An Essay of Man it seemed to me that God can only make us aware of what we can properly handle or understand. Thus, the reason why the Lamb did not panic as he "licks the hand about to shed his blood", and it would appear that he is also saying that the man has no idea what the Lambs are capable of doing angels or what they have planned for humanity. I also believe that even the simplest man, the “Indian,” knew that the only way to be close to God and understand what some of his opinions were was to look through nature, and that the world is safer for those which are desolate. from the teachings of the rest of the world. Then Pope goes on to show that God favors no one and that everyone's problems are equal across the board with no favoritism shown towards the "hero" or the "sparrow", and Pope shows that the death of both has a similar meaning to the eyes of God. . We are all blind to the Lord's plan, and when something comes that He has planned we can be like the mole and have it in a dim way, or we can be like the lynx with a ray of vision and a total understanding of the situation. Ultimately, though, once again it comes down to what the Lord will do, will be done, from dust to dust we will return. Blake has a similar view of life and the problems associated with it, and is very interested in proving that God is the omnipotent power over everything we do in life. The first poem I took this from was The Lamb, and how he asks the Lamb “do you know who created you?” My obvious interpretation of that stat... middle of the card...... reality, and he talks about being underwater with sea girls - maybe mermaids - with kelp garlands. All until "human voices wake us and we drown"; like it's all a dream and he wakes up to drown in the reality of all the insecurities they were talking about before, and never having the chance to talk to this woman about his dreams. So, in my opinion, from reading the authors; I believe that Pope and Blake, unlike Eliot, relied heavily on Jesus and the afterlife providing them with guidance in all their decisions about what would be best for them and their family. Eliot was driven by his own shortcomings and seemed to push things away thinking he always had time with his problems, and eventually all his problems ended up drowning him metaphorically or in reality and he could have ended his life due to the fact that pressures overwhelming burdens of life upon him.