Creed
Creed - meaning Summary
Faith in Creative Renewal
Gabriela Mistral's poem expresses a simple, spiritual faith that emotional wounds, when offered up to the divine, are transformed into renewed life and song. Suffering becomes creative material: what the speaker extracts from herself dyes life’s pale canvas with a red hue, turning pain into luminous garments. The poem asserts hope that inner sorrow can be transfigured into beauty and renewal through faith and artistic expression.
Read Complete AnalysesI believe in my heart that when the wounded heart sunk within the depth of God sings it rises from the pond alive as if new-born. I believe in my heart that what I wring from myself to tinge life’s canvas with red of pallid hue, thus cloaking it in luminous garb.
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