He’s Watching You As a boy growing up in the church of Christ at Romance, Richard Davis commonly led the singing and we would sing an old familiar song entitled “Watching You,” which was written by James M. Henson after being inspired by an incident at a revival. The revival speaker told a group of boys whose unruly conduct had been the source of trouble at previous services, “We are expecting order here and you had better be careful, because there’s an all-seeing eye watching you tonight.” That eye belonged to the county sheriff, who was at the meeting by invitation. I well remember the words to that song. “All along on the road to the soul’s true abode, There’s an Eye watching you; Every step that you take this great eye is awake, there’s an eye watching you. Fix your mind on the goal, that sweet home of the soul. There’s an eye watching you; Never turn from the way to the kingdom of day. There’s an eye watching you.” There was something about those words that was scary to a young boy. Sometimes at night I would peek out my bedroom window looking for that eye that could see everything. (Psalms 139: 7-12) And, I can assure you that during those times I was on my best behavior. If the Lord was watching me, He was going to catch me at my best. Well, I know now that the message in that old song is a reminder that God is …show more content…
Nonetheless, Christians are protected through faith as long as we are faithful. (Revelation 2: 10) There is nothing more precious, to the Christian, than the knowledge that he/she is as close to God as was David and to know that the Heavenly Father keeps of us as the apple of His eye. (Deuteronomy 32: 10) “Every day mind the course you pursue; There’s an all seeing eye watching you.” The apostle wrote, “And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.” (Hebrews 4:
The somber and effusive tone of the selected passage from Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is shown through its general diction and imagery. Hurston uses skillfully chosen words to enhance the imagery, and both devices contribute to the tone of this scene.
Without the use of stereotypical behaviours or even language is known universally, the naming of certain places in, but not really known to, Australia in ‘Drifters’ and ‘Reverie of a Swimmer’ convoluted with the overall message of the poems. The story of ‘Drifters’ looks at a family that moves around so much, that they feel as though they don’t belong. By utilising metaphors of planting in a ‘“vegetable-patch”, Dawe is referring to the family making roots, or settling down somewhere, which the audience assumes doesn’t occur, as the “green tomatoes are picked by off the vine”. The idea of feeling secure and settling down can be applied to any country and isn’t a stereotypical Australian behaviour - unless it is, in fact, referring to the continental
This essay will explore how the poets Bruce Dawe, Gwen Harwood and Judith Wright use imagery, language and Tone to express their ideas and emotions. The poems which will be explored throughout this essay are Drifters, Suburban Sonnet and Woman to Man.
In Tim Seibles' poem, The Case, he reviews the problematic situations of how white people are naturally born with an unfair privilege. Throughout the poem, he goes into detail about how colored people become uncomfortable when they realize that their skin color is different. Not only does it affect them in an everyday aspect, but also in emotional ways as well. He starts off with stating how white people are beautiful and continues on with how people enjoy their presence. Then he transitions into how people of color actually feel when they encounter a white person. After, he ends with the accusation of the white people in today's world that are still racist and hateful towards people of color.
The poem “ Who understands me but me” by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Is about being locked away in jail because in the poem it repeatedly saying how they take or more specifically “ They stop each hope so I have no passage out hell. Then the poem has a change in outlook it goes from feeling down to looking at the brighter side. It says “I can live
“Lost Brother” by Stanley Moss is a poem dedicated to a fallen brethren, an ancient tree that had lived a long, noble life. As bizarre as it may seem to mourn a felled tree, the speaker wants the reader to share in his sorrow through extended metaphor and personification to prove that the tree was full of humanity undeserving of its untimely fate and whose life should serve as an example to others.
In the poem By Watching, Hiram Larew uses signature craft techniques to show the realization that people can regain their conviction in God by conquering the doubt in their mind’s eye.
This darkly satiric poem is about cultural imperialism. Dawe uses an extended metaphor: the mother is America and the child represents a younger, developing nation, which is slowly being imbued with American value systems. The figure of a mother becomes synonymous with the United States. Even this most basic of human relationships has been perverted by the consumer culture. The poem begins with the seemingly positive statement of fact 'She loves him ...’. The punctuation however creates a feeling of unease, that all is not as it seems, that there is a subtext that qualifies this apparently natural emotional attachment. From the outset it is established that the child has no real choice, that he must accept the 'beneficence of that motherhood', that the nature of relationships will always be one where the more powerful figure exerts control over the less developed, weaker being. The verb 'beamed' suggests powerful sunlight, the emotional power of the dominant person: the mother. The stanza concludes with a rhetorical question, as if undeniably the child must accept the mother's gift of love. Dawe then moves on to examine the nature of that form of maternal love. The second stanza deals with the way that the mother comforts the child, 'Shoosh ... shoosh ... whenever a vague passing spasm of loss troubles him'. The alliterative description of her 'fat friendly features' suggests comfort and warmth. In this world pain is repressed, real emotion pacified, in order to maintain the illusion that the world is perfect. One must not question the wisdom of the omnipotent mother figure. The phrase 'She loves him...' is repeated. This action of loving is seen as protecting, insulating the child. In much the same way our consumer cultur...
This song uses a range of different techniques to get the main message of the song across to the audience. Repetition is used in verses 2,4, and 8. “God help me, I was only nineteen”. The effect this gives is to emphasize how the composer is feeling. You feel the pain and the grieving the veterans went through whilst fighting for our country in the war. It makes you realize that some men and women were so young to go out and experience such things that no human being should go
I’ve been betrayed by my closest friends, I’ve been left, taken for granted and forgotten too by the persons whom I loved the most. I lost what and whom I value the most but I gain Christ. In my darkest and toughest times, I found myself like a baby cuddling in God’s loving arms. Truly, God is everywhere. He’s just letting us do the things we want in accordance to our free will so that we may learn. In every hardship we encounter, we were just like students taking examinations. The Master observes His students as they take exams. Right? In Psalms 139:7, a psalmist said that there is no place you can go where God is not with
Robert Creeley, a famous American poet, lived from 1926 to 2005. Creeley was normally associated as a Black Mountain poet because that is where he taught, and spent most of his career. Throughout his life, Creeley wrote many different pieces of poetry. Four great poems by Robert Creeley are, “For Love”, “Oh No”, “The Mirror”, and “The Rain”. The poem “For Love”,was written by Creeley for his wife. In this poem Creeley explains, the love someone has for another person, and how complicated it is making his life because the person doesn’t know how to explain their love. “Oh No” is a poem that is literally about a selfish person who ended up in hell, but this poem has a deeper meaning. Part
father. He admires the times he had with his father, and seeing both of them walk in an
In nature people change often depending on the time of their lives. Time is a factor of change and growth, everything changes over time. Metal rusts, girls become women, seasons change, naive becomes conscious, boys become men; things change and become something new. There are many more other ways to represent how things change over time but for this argument, boys changing through time is the topic. In the poem “Boys” by Rick Moody, the life of two young boys growing into men is told, and Moody tells how the boys change dress and activities during different stages of their lives.
Our faith as Christians should be in the ability to hold firmly and trust in the revelation of God’s word. Revelation must not be ignored. The Faith “surrounds” our reason with three key elements in mind, which are focused on human life, and God’s mysterious existence and power. Faith is justified in our reason and not just a state of mind to fill the void of reasoned knowledge. I believe there is a special knowledge that is centered and leads us to truth---and reason toward our obligations, commitments and how dedicated we are in Christ. He will certainly open the path of life for those who faithfully believe the inner testimony and followed his word.
One of the lines in the song said, “We go to the ends of the earth and you know that we go to the edge of the world.” The theme of the service we performed in was missions. I thought about it for a minute, and decided, “well maybe it could be when we make our beds in Sheol, it could be in places where God is not known to the people - people who have never heard the name of God.” In a place where God is not known to anyone it could be like hell, but when we go, God’s presence follows us to the “ends of the