Just Say No to Abuse Declaring War on Terrorism. These will be the topic of the present article. By using examples from the poetic sections of the Bible, I will illustrate what parallelism is and how it contributes to poetic balance.
Parallelism refers to the external form that a listener or a reader perceives in a poem.
It is not a technique that has been developed for a particular effect, but the external manifestation of an interiority that grasps reality in similarities and contrasts. What is expressed in these two lines is the observation that a son's wisdom or lack of it, will affect his parents. This section of Psalm 8 is the beginning of the poet's cry of wonder and amazement at the place that he and the whole of humanity holds before God. Ideas in the first line are repeated in the second line with a bit more coloring. Balance on the other hand, is the harmonious coordination of the parallels in the poem.