Creation Vs Creation Poem Analysis

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Both biblical story and poem start off as taking care of the darkness by enforcing the light. "Let there be light." They both include the same things created; which are sky, oceans, sun, moon, stars, vegetation, land and water creatures and lastly humankind. The story of creation and the creation poem by James Weldon Johnson, both mention how man-kind came up to be. Man-kind was brewed in God's image. "So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." (Genesis) "Toiling over a lump of clay; till he shaped it in his own image; then into it, he blew the breath of life, and man became a living soul."(Johnson)
The story of creation from Genesis and The creation poem are different in many