The Day before His Birth
The Opening of the “Journey of the Magi” described a cold night of winter where the author used as an imagination to describe how it was like for the three kings or Wiseman to journey east to witness a birth of a child. As the narrator informed the reader hardship and difficulties the three kings faced throughout their journey. Such as spirituality, emotion, and physical. The “Journey of the Magi” poem tells us from different approach the meaning of the birth of Christ.
One this I realized from the beginning of the poem, was the fact the author was quoting from somewhere else, which cause to conclude as I said earlier “ the three kings or Wiseman. We all know how’s the winter like. Imaging you going on adventure in the desert not knowing where to go. You are frustrating, angry, and even discourage to continue but you still move on your journey. That’s the picture the author …show more content…
So right now he his recalling the story (perhaps the kings were in their home town) to others that he “would do it again” even though they went through the hardship, depression, and mental emotion.
Furthermore, they asked a question “Birth or Death?”(36). May be they assured themselves that indeed there was a “Birth.” In addition, their lives change as a result of this journey by concluding that birth and dead was not different. Perhaps the bitter agony of birth represents the mother suffering while giving birth. The author is symbolically showing us the agony of death and birth are the same. Also, “this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death”(38-39) could mean Christ birth and sufferings death as the biblical passage convey to us.
This poem help us understand from a different point of view of a journey taken by three kings east to witness the birth of
The Opening of the “Journey of the Magi” described a cold night of winter where the author used as an imagination to describe how it was like for the three kings or Wiseman to journey east to witness a birth of a child. As the narrator informed the reader hardship and difficulties the three kings faced throughout their journey. Such as spirituality, emotion, and physical. The “Journey of the Magi” poem tells us from different approach the meaning of the birth of Christ.
One this I realized from the beginning of the poem, was the fact the author was quoting from somewhere else, which cause to conclude as I said earlier “ the three kings or Wiseman. We all know how’s the winter like. Imaging you going on adventure in the desert not knowing where to go. You are frustrating, angry, and even discourage to continue but you still move on your journey. That’s the picture the author …show more content…
So right now he his recalling the story (perhaps the kings were in their home town) to others that he “would do it again” even though they went through the hardship, depression, and mental emotion.
Furthermore, they asked a question “Birth or Death?”(36). May be they assured themselves that indeed there was a “Birth.” In addition, their lives change as a result of this journey by concluding that birth and dead was not different. Perhaps the bitter agony of birth represents the mother suffering while giving birth. The author is symbolically showing us the agony of death and birth are the same. Also, “this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death”(38-39) could mean Christ birth and sufferings death as the biblical passage convey to us.
This poem help us understand from a different point of view of a journey taken by three kings east to witness the birth of