DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:  "The Universal Prayer" by Alexander Pope Originally read: January 26, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Alexander Pope The poem is constructed in quatrains with alternating rhyme scheme (abab).  I wrote that first because I don't know what I should write about this one.  Yes, I did choose this poem, and I think I chose it because of the inconsistencies or, maybe, humor in the poem. The last line in the first stanza, "Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!"  shows a sense of desperation or rather overstatement (over-dramatization) of need.  From here on out, I get a sense of sarcasm from the poem.  In stanza two, "To know but this -- that thou art good, / And that myself am blind: / Yet gave me, in this dark estate to see the good from ill"  Within four lines there's a quandry.  An omnipotent being is good, but made me blind, but in my blindness, inflicted by a good omnipotent being, I am able to see the good in th...