Good Example Of Creative Writing On Poem – The Answer To The Holiest Believer

Sweet believer, bend your ears,

Let me now assuage your fears!
All the Sins you fear you feel
Now is cleans’d from head to heel.
Rivers flow upon your shores,
Feel your anguished Guilt no more.
I see the work your Hands create

And feel your Passion, oh so great

And in return, I offer you
That sweet respite you scramble to
Thy Soul is clean, so good your cause
Acknowledging your Humble prayer
I give to you a gift so rare

Cloaking you in Love and Peace

Offering your soul a lease -
A place in Heaven waits for you;
Response:
This poem is inspired by Augustus Toplady’s “Praying, Living, Dying,” or “A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the World,” a poem featuring a desperate man begging for assistance and forgiveness. The poem’s lyricism is fairly simple, with an aabb rhyming scheme and iambic tetrameter, offering a slight, effortless poetry that is fairly easy to absorb. The poem’s content offers a man completely dependent on their Savior, who is almost certainly Christ, to give him solace and forgiveness despite not having anything to offer them. From the reading of this poem, it is clear that the subject of the poem is someone who is at an extremely low point in their lives, and does not feel they deserve forgiveness, yet is asking for it anyway.
With this in mind, I chose to write “The Answer to the Holiest Believer” from the perspective of the Rock of Ages itself, offering him the solace he so desperately craves. I chose to maintain the same form and meter that the Toplady poem has to cement it as an equal dialogue between deity and follower. This makes God much more humble and approachable, as it allows the speaker to speak on the prayer’s level. Furthermore, I chose to match much of the imagery used in Toplady’s poem as a direct response to the narrator’s prayers: just as the narrator begs to “Let me hide myself in Thee!”, the narrator of my response answers that prayer in the last line of the poem (“Your Rock of Ages hides you too.”). Toplady refers to cleansing for his narrator, hoping to assuage his guilt and get rid of his sin; these things are explicitly responded to within my poem, offering salvation for these specific issues. Just as Toplady mentions the “Labours of my Hands,” so too does the God of my response acknowledge that hard work, using it as a primary reasoning for his choice to save the narrator. Absolving him of sin “from head to heel” is an image meant to evoke the comprehensive and all-encompassing nature of God’s forgiveness; thanks to his hard work and humility, God provides him with complete and total solace.
God’s opinion of the believer in Toplady’s poem has to be absolute and loving, or else it would not do the original poem justice. The believer is referred to as ‘sweet’ at several points in the poem, showing His love for the man and the positive feelings he has for him. The imagery of rivers is called back from the original poem “Let the Water and the Blood / From thy riven Side which flow’d,” as God offers the cleansing power of the River to take care of the Guilt that the man feels and answer his call to be ‘washed.’