The Potter's Hand
The Divine Potter [ quatrain of interlocking rhyme and intentionally irregular iambic meter ] Held i’th’hands of the Heavenly Potter, He moulds every curve and fold in the clay. Faulty grooves and dents are divinely purpos’d, Surely following the Potter’s perfect way. I was reading the famous Shakespearean tragedy Antony and Cleopatra last week as part of my English Lit course, and I came across the expression “accidents unpurposed” uttered by the tragic hero Antony in Act 4 as he referred to all the deeds of the past his noble subordinate Eros had done. All the things Eros had done in his life – all the things he had been through – these could all be called “accidents unpurposed” – random occurrences which have no higher meaning than as a trivial coincidence. I thought about all the things that have filled every day of every year each of us have ever liv...