What Does Isaac Watts Mean

Isaac Watts: Working for Him Mister Isaac Watts was a seventeenth century poet and hymn writer. He was born in Southampton, England on July 17, 1674. His childhood was surrounded by religious activities. His father was a Dissenter who was arrested and thrown in jail in the early years of Isaac Watts' childhood. Although his father was not present to pass down his beliefs as a Dissenter, Isaac Watts had no problem following in his father's footsteps because Isaac Watts lived in the time when Dissenters were of majority townspeople. Isaac Watts was the eldest of eight children also believed that the state should not interfere with the church. At the age of 4, Isaac Watts began to learn the language of Latin. Later, Isaac Watts continued to further educate himself at the Free-School of Southampton where he also learned the languages of Greek, French, and Hebrew.
The author's diction is in terms of God and the Bible. In stanza three, the line "Let love through all your actions run and all your words be mild" preaches religion through peace. In the last stanza, the author preaches against violence by suggesting that God "marks" the children dwelling in love as "His own". In the first stanza, the author uses different animals to symbolize God's meaning between animals and humans. God made animals, not humans, to "bark and bite" and "growl and fight" (lines 1 and 3). The author uses the word "let" to express release; the author wants the readers to "let", as in allow, animals to provide all the viciousness in the world, instead of humans. The author uses a visual imagery to show praise in God. In the last stanza line 18, the author states God sits at his "heavenly throne". This line gives the visual image to the readers of a king-like persona. God "reigns from above" on his throne portrays a sense of someone keeping an eye of the reader; "Heavenly throne" gives a perspective of ruling the