Revelation

Creation

Creation (2009) IMDB rating: 6.90 Plot: What happens when a world-renowned scientist, crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter, formulates a theory in conflict with religious dogma? This is the story of Charles Darwin and his master-work “The Origin of Species”. It tells of a global revolution played out the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most dangerous idea in history; and a theory saved from extinction by the logic of a child.

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Actors: Bettany Paul,Carter Jim,Cumberbatch Benedict,Davies Zak,Dunkin Christopher,Jones Toby,Northam Jeremy,Sansostri Harrison,Biography,Drama,

Can someone please analyze this poem for me your help would be greatly appreciated?
TO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep intent,
And thought in living characters to paint,
When first thy pencil did those beauties give,
And breathing figures learnt from thee to live,
How did those prospects give my soul delight,
A new creation rushing on my sight?
Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue,
On deathless glories fix thine ardent view:
Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire
To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!
And may the charms of each seraphic theme
Conduct thy footsteps to immortal fame!
High to the blissful wonders of the skies
Elate thy soul, and raise thy wishful eyes.
Thrice happy, when exalted to survey
That splendid city, crown’d with endless day,
Whose twice six gates on radiant hinges ring:
Celestial Salem blooms in endless spring.
Calm and serene thy moments glide along,
And may the muse inspire each future song!
Still, with the sweets of contemplation bless’d,
May peace with balmy wings your soul invest!
But when these shades of time are chas’d away,
And darkness ends in everlasting day,
On what seraphic pinions shall we move,
And view the landscapes in the realms above?
There shall thy tongue in heav’nly murmurs flow,
And there my muse with heav’nly transport glow:
No more to tell of Damon’s tender sighs,
Or rising radiance of Aurora’s eyes,
For nobler themes demand a nobler strain,
And purer language on th’ ethereal plain.
Cease, gentle muse! the solemn gloom of night
Now seals the fair creation from my sight.

Phillis Wheatley

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Well, analyzing the poem is your job, but I’ll tell you that it was inspired by the work of Scipio Moorhead, an African painter. Wheatley is praising and encouraging him, one artist to another, but also reminding him, with a change in tone ("But when these shades of time …) that eventually earthly praise and success will mean nothing, as will earthly subjects for poetry and painting. In heaven, after death, their themes will be different and their subjects will demand new language and new reverence.
Lili | Feb 07, 2010