Journey of the Magi Essays (635 words) - Gospel Of Matthew

Journey of the Magi is about the sudden understanding of Christianity. Death and rebirth occurs in the poem of Journey of the Magi. The journey to Bethlehem was an end of an era and upcoming birth of a new one. Elliot states that the Magi were a difficult journey. Elliot uses in (line 1) a cold coming we had of it. He uses this as to find fault of and the climate in (line2) just the worst time of year so in other words Elliot uses this saying it was cold. There came forth hard times according to (line 16) Elliot uses a hard time we had of it. They use the statement in (line 10) and the silken girls bringing sherbet. If life was more at ease but instead of the wise men being grateful they were truly ungrateful but they feel as if they are moving forward with their journey with the lord and putting their sinful past behind them. The wise men are tempted to backslide because the camel men and the bad cities cause the wise men to take advantage of their journey and fall again as perverts. The wise men think of the difficult journey and this reminds them of their sinful life and this helps them to move on. The poem moves on to the confession of sins. After the hard times the wise men arrive at s unrise in the valley wet and smelling of vegetation according to (lines21-22). Elliot describes in (line24) that the scenery as three trees on the low sky, and an old white horse galloped away in the meadow as if the white horse could mean death. In the Merriam Webster dictionary confession is defined as to acknowledge ones sins to God or to a priest. In other words the narrator wants God?s forgiveness. Because he didn?t ever take time to understand the importance of God and his birth. The confession is described as this birth was/hard and bitter agony for us, like death, our death (lines 38-39). The narrator says I had seen a birth and death? But had thought they were different (lines 37-38). The wise men were saying as if what they had experienced while traveling so far was like the end to them than the beginning. The wise men speak as no one is perfect but the soul can begin a process of becoming perfect. In (line 39) we returned to our place, these kingdoms. They use this saying that death has an ending and that?s when the soul can be complete. In (line 40) we returned to our places, these kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation with an alien people clutching their Gods. I should be glad of another d eath. And this describes human weakness as being able to face what comes too you as trials and tribulations. The wise men returned to their property. And they feel sorry that they have to and are no longer at ease. They do not feel comfortable about their own life thus far they do not back slide into their sinful ways. The wise men do not fit in with their people who now feel weird to them. The theme of the poem is trying to be perfect only ended in death. The narrator wants his life to end because of his weariness. Only the death of Jesus Christ will satisfy him. And he wishes on another death to bring on spiritual strangeness. And it is not said if he was would have been happy after his dealings with the first death. In conclusion, the poem Journey of the Magi, mainly speaks on the human soul and the struggle to be perfect. And that perfection can only be satisfied through death.