The Creation By James Weldon Johnson

“God kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay till he shaped it in his own image.” God and the creation of time and earth are portrayed very differently in James Weldon Johnson's The Creation, and Philip Booth’s the Original Sequence. God as a figure is described differently in these two poem. Both of these poems have two distinctive views on the creation of time, earth, and everything that exists today. In the Creation the author describes making of the earth, step by step from darkness to the blazing sun in the heavens. James Johnson has a very interesting point of view on the creation of mankind and the world. In this poem the world is a very small ball compared to the “Giant” god who roams around forming the physical features of the earth surface and creating the plant we have today. Johnson uses ideal word choice to make the reader feel like they are sitting right
Philip Booth described in this poem the start of time, death and every thing that people do in their lives today. The reader can learn that from this poem Adam and Eve made Gods decision to start the clock of humanity and his two “animals” that he had created told him that this is when it all beings. Booth illustrates God's character and the decision he made in this quote “The fodder for that two-fold flock fell, an old brown core, at God’s stopped feet. He reached, and wound the clock.” This quote truly expresses the beginning of time and how it began. Once Adam and Eve ate that apple and God found out, that is when time began for everything. Adam and Eve were just guinea pigs to God, and God was just trying to find when to start the clock. The Creation and the Original Sequence have many differences on how God appeared to the creation to earth and humans. The biggest difference is in how the creation part in the stories are completely