Edward Taylor

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Then cloath therewith mine Understanding, Will, Affections, Judgment, Conscience, Memory; My Words and Actions, that their shine may fill My wayes with glory and thee glorify. Then mine apparell shall display before yee That I am Cloathd in Holy robes for glory.


Reflection:

In this poem the author uses a meaningfukl analogy that his life is a spinning wheel and he asks god to take control of his life and weave him into something. After that he asks for color to be added which I interpreted to mean that he wanted the lords craft to be easily and publicly displayed. After that talks about how was made for gods glory. I thought that his analogy was able to describe his transformation very well, with the loom at first representing him and then that being used as a means to create his new self, the robes which were then colored to show gods work and then dislpayed to show gods glory.

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