An Impression of an Essay on Man Alexander Pope's beautiful poem in "An Essay on Man" has many deep meanings, but they are almost always difficult to discover if you only read it once. Only by reading it several times and taking it apart line by line will you be able to truly understand everything the pope is trying to make you understand. Separated into ten stanzas, each setting out a clear part of his argument, and all relating to his main purpose of showing humanity that God is superior to everything and that everything has a reason. I paraphrased the first verse as follows: First of all, we can only understand what we already know about God and man. For man, we only see his place on earth, and that is not much to reason about or reference when compared to the knowledge of God. Although God knows infinite amounts of worlds, he is the only God we know. God, who can see everything, who can create a universe with many other worlds, who knows how our solar system works, who knows what other suns with planets there are, who knows what kind of people live on those planets around each sun , He knows why we are made like this. But in this state of mind, with all the ways we are connected to God, or bonds, strong connections, dependencies, and gradations, have you really looked through your soul, or are you just getting part of the truth? Chain of Being, which everyone agrees on and which many people claim, something that God planned or was it created by man? This first verse shows mankind that while we claim to know the way everything works, we actually know nothing compared to God. The first line of the second epistle, "On the nature and state of man with respect to himself , as an Individual,” is: “Know thyself, do not presume that God can scrutinize it appropriate study of humanity is Man.” This phrase says that we must know ourselves, we cannot simply assume that God will tell us, and that the only way we can know humanity is to know ourselves first..