Miranda Lambert's The Crookedness Of The Serpent

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Basavana was rejected for speaking out against sacrificing animals because he believed this was not the moral thing to do. He believed that a person could disagree with the word of the lord and still be accepted by him. In his poem, The Crookedness of The Serpent, he uses nature to symbolize how god will accept the race of man even when they have sinned. He compares crookedness that appears organically in nature to the sin of man. The moral lesson of this poem is very similar to the lesson in country singer Miranda Lambert's song “Heart Like Mine." This song explains how a person can be flawed and still accepted by god for the person he or she is.
Basavana compared things that are naturally “crooked” with the sin of Men. In the second stanza in his poem, Basavana writes, “The crookedness of the river is straight enough for the sea.” Even though the river can twist and turn it will still be accepted by the ocean regardless of its crookedness. This can be compared with the reference to nature in Lambert's song lyrics “He could calm a storm.” This lyric is explaining that god can calm a storm despite the turbulence. The storm's chaos represents sin which god can absolve. This is very similar to the natural symbolism of a hectic river flowing into a calming and accepting ocean. …show more content…

I believe that this was Basavana's inspiration for writing the poem The Crookedness of the Serpent. In the song, she states that although Christians may look down on her for smoking, she still believes she is accepted by

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