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Article: Sayers's THE MAKERS.
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Dorothy L. Sayers's poem "The Makers" (1943), though a work born of her own religious conviction, is not per se a religious poem. It is, rather, an allegory, the topic of which is the human creative process that results in a work of art.
Sayers's earthly trinity (Sayers, Zeal 115) has three members: the Architect, the Craftsman, and the Stone. They are analogous to the Christian Trinitarian Godhead: the Architect is first person, the Father; the Craftsman is second person, the Son; and the Stone is third person, the Spirit. Allegorically they are the Architect as "creative idea," the Craftsman as "creative energy," and the Stone as "creative power" (115).