The Oxen Perspective

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among the lower classes led some to doubt the presence of a divine being in the world and others to question the value of Christianity.
Firstly, the use of folk to describe the children gathered with a strong religious connotation, and reflects the beliefs of his childhood, being skeptical of your religion is such a thing calls for being pessimistic and anxiety. This skepticism began because of the superstition that the oxen, donkey, and descendants of other beasts at Bethlehem knelt in reverence as soon as the infant Christ was delivered. This myth of trust is treated gently, reflected in the idealized portrayal of "meek mild creature" dwelling "in their strawy pen". In the third stanza when he said " So fair a fancy few would weave" to understand the sliding away of certainty. Besides, the poem was written during the First World War. The war stripped away many illusions, especially for those who might have been clinging to a resident belief often found themselves becoming ...

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