Comparing Pope, Blake, and Eliot

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Pope's way of dealing with life and its problems seemed to be in the theory of just leaving it all up to God, and "whatever is, is right." In the end Gods plan will be done and nothing will change or deviate your life outcomes from what he has planned. Throughout Pope's An Essay of Man it seemed to me that God may only make us aware of what we can handle or appropriately comprehend. Thus, the reason the Lamb did not panic as it "licks the hand about to shed his blood," and it would seem that he's also saying man has no idea what angels are capable of doing or what they have planned for mankind. I also believe that even the simplest of man, the "Indian," knew that the only way to be close to God and understand what some of his views were was to look through nature, and that the world is safer for those who are desolate from the rest of the worlds' teachings. Then Pope goes on to show that God favors no one and every ones problems are equal across the board with no favoritism shown toward the "hero" or the "sparrow," and Pope shows that the death to both are similar in significance in Gods eyes. We are all blind to the Lords plan, and when something comes that he has planned we can be like the mole and have dim sight of it, or we can be like the lynx's with a beam of sight with total understanding of the situation. In the end though again it comes down to what will be done by the lord will be done, from dust to dust we shall return.
Blake has a similar view on life and the problems associated with it, and he is very keen on showing that God is the almighty power over everything we do in life. The first poem I took this from was The Lamb, and how he asks the Lamb "dost thou know who made thee?" My obvious interpretation of that stat...

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...ality, and he talks of being under water with sea-girls -- Mermaids perhaps -- with seaweed wreathes. All until "human voices wake us, and we drown;" like it was all a dreaming and he wakes up to drown in the reality of all the insecurities that they were talking about earlier, and never having the chance to begin with to talk with this woman of his dream.
So in my opinions from reading the authors; I believe that Pope and Blake unlike Eliot they relied heavily on Jesus and the afterlife providing guidance to all their decisions to what would be the best for them and their family. Eliot was driven by his own short comings and seemed to push things back thinking he always had time with his issues, and in the end all his issues ended up drowning him either metaphorically, or in reality and he may have end his life do to the overwhelming pressures of life on him.

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