Blog Post #3 Topic #1

                                             Close reading of  “Waiting for Godot”

    The important words relate with one another in the sense that one explains the reasoning behind the other. An example is in the start of the text where it says “He takes off boots” which relates to another word that states “pulling them out”. The phrase removing shoes appears for the second time towards the middle of the poem when the speakers talk about the hurting foot.

   There are words that have been used as archaic language  to bring out deliberate weirdness , for example when the poem says that there are  “four evangelists but only one talks about a thief being saved.” I think the four evangelists could be referring to the four gospels and the thieves are the people who were crucified with Jesus are the thieves. The holy land in this case could be Israel. The words look weird the way they are used because we have a thief being saved and gospel writers as evangelistic. The writer also talks of as if he believes that what is written in the bible is not entirely true for example he mentions that “they all believe it because that is the only truth that they know” the text also mentions that “people are blood ignorant apes.

    The words that could have more than one meaning include thief and savior. The thieves mean sinners while the savior means Jesus. The other words that could be having a different meaning is the four, evangelists which means the gospels and the evangelists are the disciplines of Jesus who were present from fructification. The other possible ways to read them could be; he four gospels instead of four evangelists or better still the actual names would have been used. The holly land would have been referred to as Israel.

    The Patterns fit into the whole book because the poem is more of a conversation between two people, essentially these two people are having a discussion about an event. One person seem to understand the events better than the other person and that is why he is trying to explain. The person who feels that he understands things better thinks that his partner does not try to understand things, he says”….you haven’t yet tried everything”. There an element of microcosm in the poem when one person things that the other has a limited world view of things.

    The sentence rhythm are short and choppy because each speaker makes statements which he or does not complete  . The sentence does not built on itself.  The rhythm like element comes out more clearly when sentences end with similar sound e. g "where and there."

    The paradox in the poem as regards the authors   thought on the subject is about the subject of enjoying and hurting. An example where a paradox has been used is when the poet says” the savior who could not save”

    The Author should  have talked about the aspect of salvation as a result of the dying Christ. The author also avoids mentioning the positive things that came as a result of the crucification, the poet is silent about positive things where the four gospels agree. He has just picked out one contradictory statement and majored on it. The author does not take a position as to whether he supports  the events or not.