Forbidden Knowledge in Digging for China :: Digging for China

distinct for Forbidden Knowledge in archeological site for China     In Richard Wilburs poem, Digging for China, he writes, Far teeming down is China, somebody said. Dig deep enough and you might call in the sky as clear as at the bottom of a well. (Lines 1-3) Wilbur was suggesting to his readers that if one looks at the world in a different way, they could find a totally different place. We can see this concept when we explore Wilburs poem as a whole piece. He is talking ab come to the fore finding a enlightenment in ones backyard. He emphasizes a lot about appeal, and face harder and digging deeper for this other world. He warns his readers that they must not loose the rest of their life by essay to change one thing.   When we, the readers, break apart Wilburs poem, we find the continuous reference of religion. The person in the poem works day and night difficult to reach China. He/she was on hands and knees trying to dig this hole. It was a sort of pra ying, I suspect. (Lines 12-13) This person is realizing that they have to look other places for their paradise they are trying to find, so they look to deity. When they do this, they are cover in brightness. Wilbur uses the word palls to express this idea. The true definition is a nigrify velvet cover that drapes over a coffin. If the person wouldnt have looked to God in prayer, then their paradise would be covered in this darkness, sort of than the brightness they found. Another word that Wilbur used in reference to prayer was paten. A paten is a plate that the Eucharist is carried on. The Eucharist is the body of savior his life. In the poem, the life that the person was looking for was growing before them, hardly they were still looking into the hole.   The person then begins to realize that they are looking in the wrong place. We see this when Wilbur writes, my eyes where tired of looking into darkness, my adust head of hanging down a hole. (Lines 18-19) They realize th at this idea of their paradise is taking away from their life and that they must take their head out of the darkness that it has caused. Wilbur brings up the sun because it shows that the person is coming back to consciousness.