Reader Response Criticism to Gods Determinations Essay -- Gods Deter

Reader Response Criticism to Gods Determinations   For the reader demanding either reasonable sense or aesthetic pleasure from poetry, reading the preface to Edward Taylors Gods Determinations is humiliating in ways unintended by the 17th century prude minister and poet. Rationality per se seems rejected at the start, where we are asked scratch line to comprehend Infinity, and then to envision it (everything) beholding all things(also everything). Things get no clearer as we progress, as we find whatever infinity beholds in not everything but nothing, and that nothing itself to become the building material for all. Identifying the paradox, perhaps, as that which begins the biblical account of the Creation, even the rationalist may regain interest in the succession of images describing the building of this Globein what one might take over to be Biblical terms, but whatsoever reader looking for any logical relation between these images is quickly lost again, as metaphor s for this musket ball shift from a wood-turning, to an iron casting, to a stone edifice, a corse...