Good Friday

• Repetition
• ABBA rhyme scheme
• Figurative - stone, sheep
• Personification of sun and moon
• Stone begins and ends the poem
• Narrator associates self with the rock
• Role of women in the crucufixion, religion - their feelings shouldn't be dismissed
• Worried she's a stone - lacking in humanity - questioning emotions and faith
• Sheep - Christians a flock under the protection of Jesus
• Wants to be a sheep and respond to religion in the same way as others
• Too analytical - counting drops of blood - wants to know too much - not unquestioning
• Comparing to all thosr who had emotional reaction
• Character having a crisis of faith
• Last stanza - don't give up - look for me - smite me - ask for lack of faith to be destroyed
• Part of devotion to be unquestioning