"The Angel of Patience" by Elizabeth Akers Allen
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"The Angel of Patience" is about a person who is waiting for rest. Throughout the poem you can tell the poet has experienced loss and is grieving on earth. They long to leave this world and enter heaven to find the ultimate peace. An angel speaks and tells the poet that their time on earth is not done. The poet responds,
"Angel! behold, I wait, wearing my thorny crown through all life's hours - wait till thy hand shall open the eternal gate, and change the thorns to flowers."
The thorny crown is a metaphor for the pain and suffering on earth and the changing of the thorns to flowers, after entering heaven, represents peace. The author is intently searching throughout the poem for this peace yet the poem is never direct in explaining what has caused the sad tone of the poem. The subject is about someone seeking to enter a peaceful place, possibly heaven, sooner than they should. The theme stated is grief. The poet uses words and symbols to express grief such as:
"beside the toilsome way, lonely and dark, by fruit and flowers unblest, which my feet, tread sadly, day by day, longing for vain in rest"The title, "The Angel of Patience," is fitting because the angel reiterates through the poem that patience is a must, and faith in God's plan is where peace will come from. In Christian culture we are taught that faith is all you need to overcome any obstacle in life including grief and sadness.
The poem is one of sadness, grief, and hope. It reiterates religious values and how through faith we will become healed once again after grief.
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