Topic 3 (session B) - Patterns, Deviations, Style and Meaning > Parallelism, deviation & 'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -' > Task A - general understanding > Our answer

Parallelism, deviation and 'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -'

Task A - Our summary of 'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -'

The first and second stanzas closely parallel one another and both suggest that the human brain (= the mind??) can encompass (= envisage??) enormous natural phenomena. The third stanza parallels the first two in some respects, but also breaks the pattern. In this most foregrounded stanza the brain/mind and God are equated, a relationship which reminds us of the Biblical idea that man was created in God's image and, at the same time, of the humanist idea that man has psychological need of a God and so invents/believes in one.

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