Thematic Analysis Of Mark Jarman's 'Unholy Sonnet'

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Analysis of “Unholy Sonnet” 7 Mark Jarman, in his sonnet “Unholy Sonnet” 7, shows the conflicts that philosophical naturalism face in their struggle to discover God. At the beginning of the sonnet, saying that we can keep faith “reducing the proof of nature” (1 Jarman), this seems to be strongly agreed with a philosophical naturalism worldview. In support of this idea, the author continues in the next lines with a minimalist posture trying to prove that reducing ourselves to the most minimalist shape, “our bodies kept their faith” (2 Jarman). Then, the turn of the poem happens in the ninth line, when all the minimalization seems to go to nowhere, using jumble sentences like “We couldn´t see…” (11 Jarman) and “We couldn’t find…” (10 Jarman).

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