One of this author's poems inspired the title of Joyce Carol Oates's short story collection Upon the Sweeping Flood.
One of this author's poems inspired the title of Joyce Carol Oates's short story collection Upon the Sweeping Flood. One of this author's poems compares the soul to a "bird of paradise" put in "this wicker cage (my corpse)" which "pecked the Fruit forbade" and "fell into Celestial Famine sore," before God provides the speaker with "Heaven's Sugar Cake." Another of this author's poems includes a list of rhetorical questions such as "Who in this bowling alley bowled the Sun?" He repeatedly called himself a "crumb of dust" in the prologue to his poem (*) God's Determinations Touching His Elect. In an extended metaphor, the speaker of another of his poems compares his Conversation to a "Reele" and his soul to a "Holy Spool," and longs to be "clothed in holy robes for glory." That poem begins "Make me, O Lord, thy spinning wheel complete." For 10 points, name this author of Preparatory Meditations and "Huswifery," a colonial metaphysical poet.
One of this author's poems inspired the title of Joyce Carol Oates's short story collection Upon the Sweeping Flood.
Edward Taylor