Analysis of, 'HYBRID':

The central themes of, 'Hybrid', boarders around social media and Christianity. The author in the first person depicts in the poem his role as a witness to yet another of the cross-examinations of the Christian faith on social media (The bird out my win - dow tuweets again); which he has observed rather as a trend on two of the giant social media platforms. The narrative structure begins by a Twitter notification he receives ( Few-Few - which is one of the sounds made by the mountain blue bird used for the Twitter logo). Line four (Curious, my fingers stacatoe) gives a hint of the author's keen observation of the situation, his own social platform being the medium, and with the line (Louder my pane) gives us a feel of what seems like an outpour of some kind of rage. He describes the comments on these social platforms as throwing stones (who throw stones) by, 'Rumpling pages', rumplimg to imply angry and pages for faces, because they were Facebook comments. 'Silence that strange tongue!', alludes the infuriating sound of the bird to Tongue-speaking in churches.
'Snap the branch it stands on!', in reference to Christ's description of the church as the branch in a vine. 'The poor watered the roots with their sweat', portrays the basis of the unscriptural opinions of non-Christians (and some Christians) that Tithes and offerings are donations of the poor congregations and should be given back to them. 'On the hills we placed you, for the coming of the morning', precedes the culmination and here interestingly the author slightly lifts the lid off his idea of the psychological state of characters in this social environment and introduces a sub-theme of identity. 'Fancy feathers and shiny toes,
What happened to the monk cloaks?', a question used by the author to further investigate the mental state of critics and then thicken his plot by flipping the same question back to them as a reflection of their mental attitude '....turquoise, And then an egret...' is how he resolves this impasse and seem to lead us to the scriptural notion that the church is some sort of unrecognisable creature (2 Corinthians 5:17), and therefore a mystery to those who struggle to understand her ways. 'Well said', is his affirmation of the mystical identity about the church that her critics are confirming without knowing and thereby fulfilling scriptures.
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