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Originally Posted by Janice D. Soderling
Not wild at all, Catherine. A very credible believer POV that cranks the poem up yet another notch. All that you mention is certainly there.
It makes the poem even more gruesome though. (For me.)
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I'm not sure it's a believer POV. Who would be the believer? God the Father, God the Son? They would not need to believe, as they are believed in. I would hazard a guess that the writer is a non-believer—provided, I am even in the ballpark on the analysis, which I may not be at all. It's the perceived play between the writer and narrator within the sonnet form that amazes me. The writer has created all sorts of ways to get you to critically think about the narrative without, well, "preaching." At the same time he/she has given an account that can be taken as true to the historical narrative.
As for the "gruesome" have you read any Flannery O'Connor, particularly "A Good Man is Hard to Find"? She was a very Catholic writer. But if I did not have context and picked up that story, I might be inclined to call it a sick, psychopathic writing, or creepy. It's amazing! Horror writers and Catholic scholars both embrace her.
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