Blog ocho "The Creation"

                The bio about James Weldon Johnson describes him as a man who liked to instill qualities of the sermons he had heard in childhood.  In "The Creation" he does this by making the whole poem seem as if it is told from a child's point of view.  He creates a childlike theme by describing the process of creation as a  five year old would tell it.  It is very nostalgic to me in its overall context because the poem has a mellow tone of "God" being the childlike figure in the poem.  Johnson gives the creator childish features like in stanza one, "I'm lonely - Ill make me a world," and "And god rolled the light around in his hands/Until he made the sun/And God said: That's good (15, 16, 25)."  These are things that something a little kid would say and do when he is playing outside.  Johnson does this throughout the poem and makes the creation of the earth, moon, and stars seem to be a kid having fun in a sandbox.  The only real question is if Johnson makes out the existence of man and mankind's faith of Christianity to be some kind of joke or feeble false reality or does Johnson take the creator of life and reality and describes God from his own point of view?