ABSTRACT
Anselm's interest in words is directed towards his desire to forge a language which can not only communicate with God, but can also communicate the truth of the nature of God. The three prayers Anselm wrote to the Virgin Mary are an excellent specimen of the development of Anselm's thought and writing. Anselm demonstrates his awareness of the order and pattern that is being restored through Christ. The beauty and appeal of his prose is not intended simply as a memory aid, nor just to channel the reader's mind to the divine, but to render the restoration of creation in such a way that even his writing mimics that beauty of truth as it imposes its own order and pattern. And in so far as Anselm achieves this goal, the reader too is caught up into that beatific vision and is incorporated into the recreation of redemption wrought by Christ.
