Sentences with phrase «as poem of»

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The Christian reads the Song of Songs as both a poem of human love and a revelation of Christ's love for the Church, the latter interpretation enriching the former.

He started to explore the representation of the spiritual in art and read Bahá» í literature as well as more commercial literature based on Eastern philosophy, such as the poems of Khalil Gibran, which are based on mystical Sufi influences.

Not exact matches

While some rights holders have argued that the standard for a substantial is very low (the National Post recently argued in a case that «even the reproduction of a small number of words in a newspaper article can be an impermissible reproduction»), the Copyright Board says that its preliminary view is that «copying of a few pages or a small percentage from a book that is not a collection of short works, such as poems, is not substantial.»

Paul Mariani's poem «Solar Ice,» which centers on a Mass, has a «preconciliar» feel, as a «clear demarcation of place and hierarchy exists between the priest, who is titled the equivalent of God rather than his profession, and the lay congregation.»

Milosz does not answer this question in the poem, but his work as poet has always been to give voice to precisely this: all the sad, neglected stories of so many men and women.

Under the influence of New Criticism, some thought that Christianity could be conceived as a beautiful poem that is its own justification.

Overall, the poem is clever, but not at the expense of the heart, and it is not nearly so God - awful complicated as the play would have it.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

The poem is no cry of despair, as Vivian would have it, but rather an illustration of the path to redemption.

In this testimonial poem, Milosz directly acknowledges God as the absolute point of reference.

And the result is poems such as «The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket,» the centerpiece of his first full book, published in 1946.

For a number of vacations I assigned myself the great poems I failed to read as an undergraduate.

Thus his poems, which are ordered toward rendering the truth of things as they are, are quite different from his prose, which is governed by his consciously formulated ideas about how things ought to be.

Before the invention of the novel, verse provided the vehicle for throwing philosophical and theological truths into their enacted, experienced forms, which is why I've profited so much from medieval and Renaissance poems, especially those I've recommended, all of which are allied with the chanson de geste, tales of heroism and adventure that delight as much as they inform.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

BTW if you need a biblical opinion as t o why you should consider leaving the bible in the stories and good poems section of your personal library remember 1 Corinthians 13:11

This post of yours blew me away, as a few days ago this little poem came to me out of the blue.I often sing to myself and get these little lyrics that I have no idea what to do with, so I give it to you.

• Edwin Muir, The Complete Poems: As far as I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else'sAs far as I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else'sas I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else's).

Sometimes sitting at the kitchen table, drinking afternoon tea, she would let me turn her hand over to examine her palm, tracing the lines that crisscrossed it with my index finger, as if I were a boy swami pulled from the pages of a Rudyard Kipling poem.

God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage - managers, who had since made a great mess of it.»

The Book of Psalms seems to have been the hymn - book of the Temple liturgy — a book, quite literally, of «hymns ancient and modern», since it contains poems of the period of the monarchy (possibly, as some believe, as old as David), and others composed as late as the third century or even (as some suppose) the second century B.C.

Nowadays, though no one doubts that the dramatic detail of the Flight of Helen, the Wrath of Achilles, and the rest, is imaginary, the poems are treated as valuable sources of evidence for the history of Greece and neighbouring lands shortly before 1000 BC Even our own Arthurian legends, I observe, are now treated seriously by quite serious historians, when they are seeking for light upon the dark age of Britain.

As I search for the words for a sermon or a poem, as I raise teenagers, or as I respond to a crisis in my parish, I feel Jesus» invitation to step out of my boat, to leave behind the safe and the practical in order to toddle toward hiAs I search for the words for a sermon or a poem, as I raise teenagers, or as I respond to a crisis in my parish, I feel Jesus» invitation to step out of my boat, to leave behind the safe and the practical in order to toddle toward hias I raise teenagers, or as I respond to a crisis in my parish, I feel Jesus» invitation to step out of my boat, to leave behind the safe and the practical in order to toddle toward hias I respond to a crisis in my parish, I feel Jesus» invitation to step out of my boat, to leave behind the safe and the practical in order to toddle toward him.

We would concur with Mr Bogle about the excesses of feminism, as we expect would the poem's author, given its traditional familial focus.

For 700 years the poem has provided vivid inspiration to painters and preachers, who have kept alive a popular vision of perdition as a physical place of fire and brimstone, extraordinary torments and monsters.

And as we both now stand before this miracle, whose solemn silence can not be perturbed by human wrangling over mine and thine, whose awe - inspiring speech infinitely subdues all human strife about mine and thine, forgive me, I pray, the strange delusion that I was the author of this poem.

If his life seems fairly unremarkable except for the bitterness of the exile and of his unfulfilled political hopes, it resulted in an overpowering single work, the Comedy (which was not known as The Divine Comedy until 1555, an apt editorial intervention that has remained with the poem to this day).

Just as the same letters of an alphabet can be turned either into nonsense or into the most beautiful of poems, so the same calories seem as indifferent as they are necessary to the spiritual values they nourish.

As one who lived life to the full, he was able to embody the mature faith required to wrestle with high doctrine in a challenging poem like «In my Grandfather's Mansion» — or «Grandfather God,» in which he struggles with the doctrine of the Virgin Birth:

Perhaps as early as 1293 he had composed a work called Vita nuova («New Life»), in which he assembled thirty - one poems written during the previous ten years, many of which celebrated a woman named Beatrice.

We remember Montague as a wonderful lyric poet who produced poems that will be long remembered, all of them sharpened by a sense of loss that is both personal and cultural.

Robert Burns has a telling picture of such a nightly experience in his poem about the Scots peasant on Saturday, preparing for the observance of the next day as the time for worship and rest: The Cotter's Saturday Night.

They allow the poem to be utterly serious when its author wants it to be (one can not imagine such playfulness being allowed in the climactic visions of Paradiso XXXIII), and they allow readers to think that Dante is at least as sane as they are.

So then perhaps it is no poem, or at any rate not one for which any human being is responsible, nor yet mankind; ah, now I understand you, it was for this reason you called my procedure the most wretched act of plagiarism, because I did not steal from any individual, nor from the race, but from the God or, as it were, stole the God away, and though I am only an individual man, aye, even a wretched thief, blasphemously pretended to be the God.

What is a pagan, damned to Limbo forever for his lack of faith, doing as guide in a Christian poem?

Surely the spirit of sheer immediacy in this poem is very close to the spirit of gratitude as the Christian knows it.

Even if the date and place of Jesus» birth may be uncertain, the claim that God entered human history is central to traditional Christian belief, as the British poet Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 84) indicated in his poem «Christmas»:

It closely resembles the spirit of other traditions, such as that expressed in this beautiful poem from Zen Buddhism:

Blake named God as Urizen or Satan at the very moment when he discovered the apocalyptic significance of the death of the Christian God — as witness his first prophetic poem, America.

Look at it through microscopes, analyze the printer's ink and the paper, study it (in that way) as long as you like; you will never find something over and above all the products of analysis whereof you can say «This is the poem».

As G. E. Bentley Jr.'s critical study of Vala demonstrates, Blake's frequent and disorderly revisions of this manuscript epic reveal his own movement into a Christian and redemptive understanding of history, an understanding that could not be reconciled with the initial direction of the poem.

And as if his own speech — the first recorded words of humanity — the poem celebrating the existence of the woman (Gen. 2:23) was a mistake.

Few contemporary critics of Eliot's ideas have disputed his diagnosis of society's ills, as eloquently presented in his poems and more tendentiously in his essays.

That is the theme of Eliot's great poem, as I understand it, and it is a theme that connects the world of books to the world of music.

It is by Martin Niemöller, prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, best known as the author of the poem First They Came...

What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»

He's an authority on the Song of Songs, and he interprets the biblical Song in light of other ancient love poems — as it should be.

I'll never forget feeling the tension in the classroom as he went into detail about the real meaning of the poem.

As the poem puts it: «A general flavor of mild decay, / But nothing local, as one may say.&raquAs the poem puts it: «A general flavor of mild decay, / But nothing local, as one may say.&raquas one may say.»