This World is not Conclusion (501)

This World is not Conclusion.A Species stands beyond - -Invisible, as Music - -But positive, as Sounds - -It beckons, and it baffles - -Philosophy - - don't know - - And though a Riddle, at the last - - Sagacity, must go - -To guess it, puzzles scholars - -To gain it, Men have borneContempt of GenerationsAnd Crucifixion, shown - - Faith slips - - and laughs, and rallies - -Blushes, if any see - -Plucks at a twig of the Evidence - -And askes a Vane, the way - -Much Gesture, form the Plupit - -Strong Hallelujahs roll - -Narcotics cannot still the ToothThat nibbles on the soul -

Losses faith in an afterlife

Confidence in afterlife

Not

Not truth worthy sources of faith

Faith desperately attempts to hold on - support itself

Religion, faith, afterlife

Sermons, hymns acts as narcotics - stupefying one into submission - but they cannot ease the gnawing doubts

Rare full stop - indication of conclusivness

'Species' - a few years before Darwins 'On the Origins of Species' was written

W

We are attracted, wishing to know BUT nevertheless left disappointed, slightly confused

alliterative B sounds, less ponderous, informal, conversational

Informative

Colloquial 'don't'

Riddle - death itself? We must pass this before understanding if there is an afterlife or not

Faith personified as a young girl - physical movement of tripping

Ove

Over dramatization

Narcotics - drugs - ability to pacify momentarily, numbing effect, ease pain,  

Marx - Religion is the opium of the people

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