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Analyzing The Poem 'Modern Religion'
In the poem “Modern Religion” seems to be mocking all of the modern religions when he say that all people keep “coins bearing the image of Judas.” I think that the speaker tires to call all people hypocrites because what the point of having an item that is holly, and at the same time being able to sell out this item. I believe that the speaker of this poem is trying to what he really meant was that in our modern society any person is able to sell out their ideas, religion, and doctrine just to be caught up with the trends in the world. However, I think that when the speaker say’s “like trading Buddha for the yuan,” all people have the same mission in life, and that is to be happy with world and spiritual side. If someone where to get a figure, for money I am sure that the individual would be happy after to some people money makes them happy. …show more content…
The speaker of the poem seems to be in a melancholy state due to the fact that in center of the very pulchritude garden there is this chapel built in the center. The speaker knows that he can no longer “play on the green.” This chapel is also is symbol to the limitations that religion can put on humans in the poem the speaker says that “the gates chapel where shut,” because it encloses the human spirit inside, and out. As children we are free to think and roam around, but then religion steps in and all of our joys are taken away by gardens “filled by with graves.” The last moment before a person perishes from the
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