On the fair weather just at the Coronation by Katherine Philips

Katherine Philips On the Fair Weather just at the Coronation, it having rained immediately before and after So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms, Shows Heav'n delights to see what man performs. Well knew the Sun, if such a day were dim,                                     It would have been an injury to him: For then a cloud had from his eye conceal'd The noblest sight that ever he beheld. He therefore check'd th' invading rains we fear'd, And in a bright Parenthesis appear'd. So that we knew not which look'd most content,                      The King, the people, or the firmament. But the solemnity once fully past,  The storm return'd with an impetuous haste                                                                                     And Heav'n and Earth each other to out-do,       Vied both in cannons and in fire-works too. So Israel past through the divided flood, While in obedient heaps the Ocean stood: But the same sea (the Hebrews once on shore)  Return'd in torrents where it was before.                                                                                                                                                  Commentary: I looked at the title of this poem and  I thought the poem was going to be a  bit boring. It was only after I read it  that I realized that it was not boring  like I thought it was.  The poem talks about what exactly  what the title suggests. Katherine was  very direct when choosing the title for  her poem. For unknown reasons, she  chose to not engage the reader or grab  the reader's attention by choosing a  surprising title. Since the poem was  written in the seventeenth century,  maybe in that era, attention grabbers  were not necessary.   In the poem, Katherine Philips is  expressing the actions that occurred  while a king was being coronated at  some ceremony.  The actions that Katherine Philips  expresses are just the weather that  took place in the coronation.  In the poem, Katherine Philips says,  "And in a bright Parenthesis appear'd.   So that we knew not which look'd most  content, The King, the people, or the  firmament." In this phrase, Katherine  is saying that when the king was given  the crown, it was raining. Since it was  raining, you could not really see who  was happy for the king's coronation.   This poem was very informative. It is  really surprising to see that Katherine  simply talked about the weather in the  coronation. From this poem, I learned  that different eras express different topics.