Nicodemus (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Howard Nemerov
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Religion, God, Christianity, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Biblical times, Jesus Christ
The Poem
“Nicodemus” is a fifty-five-line poem divided into six stanzas and three parts. The dramatic monologue is an imaginative rendition of the New Testament Nicodemus’s response to Jesus’s statement that no man sees the kingdom of God without being born of water and spirit (in John 3). “Nicodemus” is the priest’s account to an unknown audience of his and Jesus’s encounter. Written in the persona of Nicodemus, the poem depicts the spiritual seeker as a lonely, bitter man who, although he seeks the company of Jesus, cannot or will not understand his...
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