Thesis: “Design” and “Sunday Morning” both approach faith, but contrast in how God is associated with nature and death.
Body Paragraph 2: The two narrators relate nature and religion different ways. The “Design” narrator suggests that nature is a product of God’s design. He says, “I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, / On a white heal-all, holding up a moth / Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth.” The setting seems mundane aside from the unusual coincidence that all of the figures are unnaturally white. He considers: “What had that flower to do with being white, The wayside blue and innocent heal-all? What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night?”
The specific concurrence of events indicates that the concurrence may be a feat of divine providence. “Sunday Morning” expresses a distinction between heaven and Earth. The narrator finds divinity in her relationship with the Earth rather than a relationship with God. “Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow; Grieving in loneliness, or unsubdued …show more content…
She finds the same comfort in her surroundings that many find in their faith. She claims that there is no “cloudy palm / Remote on heaven’s hill, that has endured / As April’s green endures; or will endure.” She sees visions of heaven as fleeting and insubstantial. She finds that earthly experiences last longer because she can see, absorb, and give meaning to them. Religious ideologies of heaven do not share the same tangibility as nature. The speaker in “Design” interprets nature and God as intertwined while the speaker in “Sunday Morning” perceives them as
Body Paragraph 2: The two narrators relate nature and religion different ways. The “Design” narrator suggests that nature is a product of God’s design. He says, “I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, / On a white heal-all, holding up a moth / Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth.” The setting seems mundane aside from the unusual coincidence that all of the figures are unnaturally white. He considers: “What had that flower to do with being white, The wayside blue and innocent heal-all? What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night?”
The specific concurrence of events indicates that the concurrence may be a feat of divine providence. “Sunday Morning” expresses a distinction between heaven and Earth. The narrator finds divinity in her relationship with the Earth rather than a relationship with God. “Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow; Grieving in loneliness, or unsubdued …show more content…
She finds the same comfort in her surroundings that many find in their faith. She claims that there is no “cloudy palm / Remote on heaven’s hill, that has endured / As April’s green endures; or will endure.” She sees visions of heaven as fleeting and insubstantial. She finds that earthly experiences last longer because she can see, absorb, and give meaning to them. Religious ideologies of heaven do not share the same tangibility as nature. The speaker in “Design” interprets nature and God as intertwined while the speaker in “Sunday Morning” perceives them as