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"Won’t Let You Fall"
by Sina Ali
Lights shining so bright
Feel the melodies
The Rhythm of the music
Since the very first day same story
Young ones, old ones, some glory
If these walls could speak
Imagine what they would say
For me and this path that I walk on
There’s only one way
It’s you and I into eternity
Author's Reflection
To me this poem is speaking to God. When we all die, we each have a picture of what we want our heaven to be and this is a way was mine (in the Puritan sense). “Since the very first day same story/Young ones, old ones, some glory”; speaks a lot of what the Puritans were about.
Personally, I think this relates to the Puritan mind, because they were always trying to become better in a religious sense. Always trying to spread their religious beliefs to the Native Americans is a perfect example. They claimed that it would make the Native Americans better people and insure them a way to heaven. In “The American Sense of Puritan” by Scott Atkins there is a line that proves my point.
…But then the commonly-held 'dark side,' the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans: witch-hunts, elitism, intolerance, narrow-minded zealotry; a paradigm used to understand and explain perceived moments of its recurrence within our society...”
How does this relate to my poem and the Puritan mind? It’s simple, it relates because while the Puritans were doing all the witch-hunting and everything else, they were trying to get rid of the so called evil. They wanted to make sure that all the good Puritans who believed were the only ones left; to insure all of them got to heaven and all the condemned were gone.
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