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Lot's Wife
Terri Scott
Mrs. Rice
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Poetry Analysis
Lot's Wife
By: Anna Akhmatova (PG. 1244)

This poem was based off a biblical event told in the bible. Lot, a humble man under God’s eyesight, lived in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. During these times, GOD was tired of the rebellion and sin that was continuing in the city, so he sent two men, that was actually angels, that appeared to Lot. When Lot took to the angels to his home, the inhabitants surrounded his house demanding for intercourse with the angels. Lot said no, and suggested his virgin daughters for the taking. The inhabitants suggested the angels, and gotten furious, trying to make their way in the house. Before they could even reach inside, the angels made it so that everyone was …show more content…
The author went through a lot of depression and sadness, her husband was executed, she couldn't express herself in her poems as much as she could, her poems had to be less personal, and she couldn't publish anything for a certain amount of years. Her son was also imprisoned. So I think that she is directing her depression back to Lot's wife, the wife really didn't want to leave, she didn't want to let go of the memories of where her children played, where her and her friends talked and gossiped, where she birthed her children. Any woman wouldn't have a desire to leave the one place where her family had so many memories. As a interpretation I have gotten from the poem, I believe that Lot's wife was only happy in the village, and GOD couldn't stand to have the city stand any …show more content…
Sometimes people are afraid to move away from whats been common their whole lives to something new and different, something that they're not accustomed to. This also says a lot about the Lord himself, about his rules and regulations that he has placed upon those who chose to follow. He also had consequences for those who disobeys his commands. Example, in the poem, God sent his angels to command the favorable family to leave the city and never dare to turn back, literally. The wife disobeyed, and even though God is an understanding God, like us, he has emotional traits, i.e. wrath. He gets angry, just like the rest of us. In the bible, it states that humans (us) is made upon God's own image, so of course we know what to expect in this particular situation. Just like situation with a parent disciplining a child after the child was caught in wrongdoing, the relationship between us and God is just as the same as a parent to child relationship. But God knows us (as grown people) and knows that we know right from wrong, and we know what to do and not to do, so God would give us harsher
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