While reading the poem “On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord” I became confused and interested as to why Crashaw compared Christ’s wounds to mouths and eyes. Personally I understand the mouth because the mouth, I’m assuming, could represent when people speak sins and because God died for our sins the blood dripping from those wounds could be the actual physical purging of the world of their sins( or more like forgiveness). He is giving his body and so the blood dripping from Him could be the sins leaving the world. As for the eyes, I am still confused. I know that the blood dripping from the “eyes” represent tears which can represent how tragic and sad the whole ordeal was, but I feel like there may be a deeper meaning to it, can anyone explain?