Lot's Wife
Terri Scott
Mrs. Rice
1A
Poetry Analysis
Lot's Wife
By: Anna Akhmatova (PG. 1244)
This poem was based off a biblical event told in the bible. Lot, a humble man under God’s eyesight, lived in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. During these times, GOD was tired of the rebellion and sin that was continuing in the city, so he sent two men, that was actually angels, that appeared to Lot. When Lot took to the angels to his home, the inhabitants surrounded his house demanding for intercourse with the angels. Lot said no, and suggested his virgin daughters for the taking. The inhabitants suggested the angels, and gotten furious, trying to make their way in the house. Before they could even reach inside, the angels made it so that everyone was …show more content…
blind, which made Lot and his family time for preparations to leave. By the break of dawn, the family set out to leave. The angels informed Lot to leave and never turn nor look back at the city. As they ran, the wife turned around for one last look, and with the ruins of the city, she turned into the pillar of salt.
The author expressed her feelings through the wife's point of view.
The author went through a lot of depression and sadness, her husband was executed, she couldn't express herself in her poems as much as she could, her poems had to be less personal, and she couldn't publish anything for a certain amount of years. Her son was also imprisoned. So I think that she is directing her depression back to Lot's wife, the wife really didn't want to leave, she didn't want to let go of the memories of where her children played, where her and her friends talked and gossiped, where she birthed her children. Any woman wouldn't have a desire to leave the one place where her family had so many memories. As a interpretation I have gotten from the poem, I believe that Lot's wife was only happy in the village, and GOD couldn't stand to have the city stand any …show more content…
longer.
For years it had battles, and it had so much sin dwelling in it from people going by their own rules alone, including being interested in the opposite sex, GOD was tired of it, so he planned to break down the city. This shows people in the christian society that GOD makes the rules for a certain reason, to keep them on the righteous path. And if ignored or done opposite of what commanded, the Lord, himself will seize all blessings and let destruction hit the sinful people and areas. Anna (the author) believes in Christianity, and understands the logic behinds the wife's choice to look back on the city's ruins. Based off the events in her life, she compromises with the wife choices of disobeying the angels orders of never turning back. Which relates to people anywhere, or not even people, women in general. What woman wouldn't? A woman who hasn't have their head set forward on the GOD of their beliefs.
I would say the theme of this story could be, “ A person who always looks back never goes forward.”
The wife wasn't ready to move on, she was afraid of change.
Sometimes people are afraid to move away from whats been common their whole lives to something new and different, something that they're not accustomed to. This also says a lot about the Lord himself, about his rules and regulations that he has placed upon those who chose to follow. He also had consequences for those who disobeys his commands. Example, in the poem, God sent his angels to command the favorable family to leave the city and never dare to turn back, literally. The wife disobeyed, and even though God is an understanding God, like us, he has emotional traits, i.e. wrath. He gets angry, just like the rest of us. In the bible, it states that humans (us) is made upon God's own image, so of course we know what to expect in this particular situation. Just like situation with a parent disciplining a child after the child was caught in wrongdoing, the relationship between us and God is just as the same as a parent to child relationship. But God knows us (as grown people) and knows that we know right from wrong, and we know what to do and not to do, so God would give us harsher
punishments due to us knowing better.
Which is why this poem makes a relevant example if God's rules ad regulations, his wrath, his punishments, and the fact that what he says, it must be done.
Mrs. Rice
1A
Poetry Analysis
Lot's Wife
By: Anna Akhmatova (PG. 1244)
This poem was based off a biblical event told in the bible. Lot, a humble man under God’s eyesight, lived in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. During these times, GOD was tired of the rebellion and sin that was continuing in the city, so he sent two men, that was actually angels, that appeared to Lot. When Lot took to the angels to his home, the inhabitants surrounded his house demanding for intercourse with the angels. Lot said no, and suggested his virgin daughters for the taking. The inhabitants suggested the angels, and gotten furious, trying to make their way in the house. Before they could even reach inside, the angels made it so that everyone was …show more content…
blind, which made Lot and his family time for preparations to leave. By the break of dawn, the family set out to leave. The angels informed Lot to leave and never turn nor look back at the city. As they ran, the wife turned around for one last look, and with the ruins of the city, she turned into the pillar of salt.
The author expressed her feelings through the wife's point of view.
The author went through a lot of depression and sadness, her husband was executed, she couldn't express herself in her poems as much as she could, her poems had to be less personal, and she couldn't publish anything for a certain amount of years. Her son was also imprisoned. So I think that she is directing her depression back to Lot's wife, the wife really didn't want to leave, she didn't want to let go of the memories of where her children played, where her and her friends talked and gossiped, where she birthed her children. Any woman wouldn't have a desire to leave the one place where her family had so many memories. As a interpretation I have gotten from the poem, I believe that Lot's wife was only happy in the village, and GOD couldn't stand to have the city stand any …show more content…
longer.
For years it had battles, and it had so much sin dwelling in it from people going by their own rules alone, including being interested in the opposite sex, GOD was tired of it, so he planned to break down the city. This shows people in the christian society that GOD makes the rules for a certain reason, to keep them on the righteous path. And if ignored or done opposite of what commanded, the Lord, himself will seize all blessings and let destruction hit the sinful people and areas. Anna (the author) believes in Christianity, and understands the logic behinds the wife's choice to look back on the city's ruins. Based off the events in her life, she compromises with the wife choices of disobeying the angels orders of never turning back. Which relates to people anywhere, or not even people, women in general. What woman wouldn't? A woman who hasn't have their head set forward on the GOD of their beliefs.
I would say the theme of this story could be, “ A person who always looks back never goes forward.”
The wife wasn't ready to move on, she was afraid of change.
Sometimes people are afraid to move away from whats been common their whole lives to something new and different, something that they're not accustomed to. This also says a lot about the Lord himself, about his rules and regulations that he has placed upon those who chose to follow. He also had consequences for those who disobeys his commands. Example, in the poem, God sent his angels to command the favorable family to leave the city and never dare to turn back, literally. The wife disobeyed, and even though God is an understanding God, like us, he has emotional traits, i.e. wrath. He gets angry, just like the rest of us. In the bible, it states that humans (us) is made upon God's own image, so of course we know what to expect in this particular situation. Just like situation with a parent disciplining a child after the child was caught in wrongdoing, the relationship between us and God is just as the same as a parent to child relationship. But God knows us (as grown people) and knows that we know right from wrong, and we know what to do and not to do, so God would give us harsher
punishments due to us knowing better.
Which is why this poem makes a relevant example if God's rules ad regulations, his wrath, his punishments, and the fact that what he says, it must be done.