The Hippopotamus

The Hippopotamus† Eliot utilizes the examination of the hippo and The Church to make a taunting to en against religion. There are two principle images in this sonnet, the hippo and The Church. Through hoot the sonnet, the verses are separated between the two images, depicting the howdy fly in the start of the refrain and The Church in the end.In the third verse it says, â€Å"the hippo's weak advances may blunder', which means the hippo can walk off track (9). This shows how the hippo is an image that speaks to the shortcoming of the substance, even in the most grounded of Cree tauter. Despite the fact that the hippo may appear to be solid and tough creature, the com orison to The Church demonstrates it to be powerless against the â€Å"power of religion. The Church speaks to two distinct things in this sonnet, contingent upon the interpretation.In the start Of the sonnet, it speaks to the quality and et renal existence of God in contrast with the shortcoming of the substance , as it peruses in the seventh line in the SE apartment suite verse, â€Å"while the True Church can never fall flat For it depends on a stone. † (7). Be that as it may, as t he sonnet peruses on, the correlation between the hippo and The Church combine, causing a counterfeit lord tone to emerge. The hippo bites the dust and is conveyed up to paradise with heavenly attendants marking and â€Å"hard as of gold† playing, leaving the congregation â€Å"below Wrap in the old miasmal fog' (32, 36) In r eating this, TheChurch transforms from a solid image of God, into a powerless and double-dealing ins educational cost that is squandering its solidarity to save money on sparing a creature. The two tones at that point join at long last to Courtney make Elite's supposition on The Church and religion known; deceptive, swelled, and narcissistic. Realizing that Elite's work in his initial years was that of a skeptical tone, and know Wing that this sonnet was one of the principal he composed, we can accept this is a Poe m of deriding tone.