I’m also interested in how the poet’s political/religious beliefs relate to their portrayal of God/Christ as either bodily or more spiritual. Crashaw, who converted to Catholicism, uses very physical descriptions of the body of Christ, which contributes to the eroticism of the texts. The short “Blessed be the Paps which Thou has Sucked” ends with the strange line: “The Mother then must suck the Son” (4). This offers an somewhat erotically-charged representation of salvation through the body of both the Virgin Mary and the dying Christ. Crashaw’s conversion to Catholicism affected his imagery as he focuses more on the corporal representation of the divine.