# The Mormon Question explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

## What happens

The narrator declares a defiant intention to shed his civilized trappings and journey to the land of the Mormons, a place despised by the Gentile, where he embraces a raw, untamed identity.

## Themes in this chapter

### Nature and Artifice

The narrator sheds his clothes and embraces a wild, natural state in contrast to the artificial constraints of Gentile society.

## Character check-ins

### Unknown

The narrator resolves to strip away his clothes and venture into Mormon territory, rejecting Gentile norms.

## Key lines

> I will go to the land that the Gentile loathes As he gathers his one small wife to his breast And curses and loathes till his life is done.

I will go to the place that non-Mormons despise, while they cling to their single wife and live in bitterness.

_Highlights the narrator's defiance of mainstream societal norms and his embrace of the ostracized Mormon community._

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poetry_se/chapters/the-mormon-question
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