Journal on Edward Taylor

I don’t think that this poem declares any conflict that the narrator encounters. The writing just seems to be so fiery. The narrator is expressing his new found understanding of his god. The narrator has seen the light; he knows where to go now. He now has found his way again, down the path of god to all that is holy. Maybe this story is of a man that has strayed from the path of righteousness, and now he has seen where he is heading. This has metaphorical connotations. “What Beam of Light wrapt up my Sight…”, “But yet more Strange that shine…”, “Oh! That that Flame which thou didst on me Cast…”, “Give place, ye Angells Bright. From my understanding, it is a poem of spiritual recognition. I believe that Taylor was a Puritan, and it was common for Puritans to have such intense opinions of religion and the importance of it in life. He writes about it as it were the only thing in the entire world. to understand, but after I figured out what was being said, I could interpret the meaning of the poem.

The idea of light and light producing things is very prevalent in the poem.