The Context of "The Other Side"
About this Poem:
This poem addresses the awkwardness and intolerability of the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism.
This poem addresses the awkwardness and intolerability of the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism.
Definitions:
Sedge: Any rushlike plant growing in wet places
Lea: meadow
Fallow: uncultivated land
Blackthorn: walking stick
Tares: weeds
Kirk: church
Rosary: Catholic prayers
Litany: a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession
Dandering: strolling
Poor as Lazarus:
Lazarus was a beggar in the Biblical story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31)
Pharaoh:
Ancient Egyptian king
Solomon:
Extraordinary wise king of Israel
David and Goliath:
The shepherd boy David killed the Philistine giant Goliath (1 Samuel 17) with a sling and stones. David then went on to become the king of Israel.
Sedge: Any rushlike plant growing in wet places
Lea: meadow
Fallow: uncultivated land
Blackthorn: walking stick
Tares: weeds
Kirk: church
Rosary: Catholic prayers
Litany: a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession
Dandering: strolling
Poor as Lazarus:
Lazarus was a beggar in the Biblical story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31)
Pharaoh:
Ancient Egyptian king
Solomon:
Extraordinary wise king of Israel
David and Goliath:
The shepherd boy David killed the Philistine giant Goliath (1 Samuel 17) with a sling and stones. David then went on to become the king of Israel.