Eleven Addresses to the Lord (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Allyn Smith
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Lyric sequence, Ode
- Subjects: Religion, God, Christianity, Death or dying, Life and death
The Poem
The title of “Eleven Addresses to the Lord” suggests its basic structure and intent. Eleven short poems, each capable of standing alone but enhanced by association with the others, compose the whole. Each poem is written in quatrains of varying line length; rhyme is often, though not consistently, used.
In the first address, Berryman (there is no perceivable distance between the persona-narrator and the author) praises God as the “Master of beauty” and the fashioner of things exquisitely small and lovely (the snowflake) and grandly inspiring (the earth)....
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