Who Shall Deliver me?
A speaker asks God for strength to bear the self, which cannot be shut out like other people. Calling the self a traitor and enemy, the speaker affirms that One can lift the burden and grant freedom.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Christian Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 224 words
First lines
God strengthen me to bear myself; / That heaviest weight of all to bear, / Inalienable weight of care.
All others are outside myself; / I lock my door and bar them out, / The turmoil, tedium, gad-about.
I lock my door upon myself, / And bar them out; but who shall wall / Self from myself, most loathed of all?
If I could once lay down myself, / And start self-purged upon the race / That all must run! Death runs apace.
Genres
- Christian Devotional Poetry — The speaker prays to God for strength against the self and affirms that One can break the binding yoke.
- Lyric Poetry — Eight rhymed tercets sustain a first-person expression of self-loathing, inward struggle, and hope for release.
Tags
prayer · self-loathing · inner conflict · divine deliverance
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Christian Devotional Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 224 words
- Structure: 1 section, 8 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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