Losing Religion and Finding God in The Day Zimmer Lost Religion :: Day Zimmer Lost Religion Essays

Lo drop the ballg religion and Finding God in The Day footer illogical Religion           Paul footers poem The Day Zimmer Lost Religion tells of the narrators respect and fear of Christ as a boy. He is right a panache a man and dares to challenge Christ. The expected punishment does not occur, and Zimmer loses his faith in religion as he now perceives it.     The beginning(a) stanza is more or less childhood fear of God. The narrator says, The first Sun twenty-four hour period I missed circumstances on purpose / I waited all day for Christ to cost increase down (1-2). Zimmer felt he merit to be punished, to have Christ Club me on my irreverent teeth, to walk into / My blasphemous gut and drop me like a / Red anxious thurible (4-6). Zimmer clearly expects something terrible to happen, emphasized by the posture of a watching, anticipating Devil.     Stanza two is about rebellion. It was a big cold way from th e old days (8). Zimmer would never have dared to miss Mass in his younger years. Zimmer hearts he has come a long way from his boyhood days, A long way from the dirty wind that blew / The crock like venial sins across the schoolyard (11-12). Is the dirty wind the forces in biography that we cannot control? Is the soot the flaws we begin to see in our elders as we parent older? Has Zimmer observed how weak man can be and questioned wherefore God allows our transgressions? In the schoolyard, God reigned as a threatening, / one-eyed triangle high in the fleecy sky (13-14). Does Zimmer feel God had reigned high in the sky and observed each sin we do? He equates the schoolyard with the world. Zimmer knows the minor sins of the schoolyard. God knows the sins of all.     The last stanza is about mature faith. Zimmer repeats that he waited all day for Christ to climb down . . . and pound me / Till me irreligious tongue hung out (16-19). Zimmer seems to feel that Christ is o bligated to punish and that in fact He even enjoys it. Zimmer never mentions a God of love is this why he feels there must be more to religion than what he knows now? In the last two lines, Zimmer tells us, But of short letter He never came, knowing that / I was grown up and make up for Him now (20-21).