Sign Inventory:
- For one, the poem’s tonal register seems very lyrical; very similar to biblical psalms
- Which, it turns adds great irony, right off, because the title of the piece poses the text as opposite
- The first line and last two lines of each stanza are exactly the same
- The first stanza seems very much representative of Christ; communion; heavily infused with overtones of salvation.
- The second stanza, although similar in some respects, appears more condescending, more meditative on the Revelation.
- Generally, the Psalms profess cries and pleas of help, of mediation, of reliability; of David (typically) asking the Lord for mercy, to show him favor and love, etc…
- Yet, this poem is quite paradoxical in that the narrator begs for ‘boils’ and ‘pus mixed with blood’ to fall in place of tears—essentially, the text resembles a counternarrative, colluding with conventional form yet actually presenting it in a much more subversive and secular manner; almost blasphemous.
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