Yet Do I Marvel Themes

Although race isn't mentioned until the last line of "Yet Do I Marvel," our speaker spends the first 13 lines setting the stage for that last minute turn from a general discussion of God and suffer...

Although there aren't any churches, sacrifices, or long homilies, religious references play a major role in "Yet Do I Marvel." The speaker opens the poem by declaring that God is good. In fact, the...

No doubt about it, there's a little bit of suffering in "Yet Do I Marvel." We've got blindness, death, starvation, and endless physical labor. Okay, so a big bit of suffering. And all of this from...

Nobody likes to admit weakness, but for the speaker of "Yet Do I Marvel," weakness is something nobody can escape. For the speaker, weakness is being unable to understand God's ways. It's not a phy...