Kubla Khan

Ok folks, time for another superb poem, this time by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Let’s read it together and discuss our reactions. I will include Coleridge’s own note published along with the poem.
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Coleridge’s Note:
The following fragment is here published at the request of a poet of great and deserved celebrity [Lord Byron], and, as far as [...]

Dover Beach

This is a great poem! Let’s discuss it a bit shall we? There are few pleasures equal to reading a poem, so let me invite you to read “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold now:
DOVER BEACH
By Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French [...]

Death

One reason that I love reading is those occasional moments when you stumble across a passage that lifts you out of your seat. Yesterday, I read a passage like that from an essay by one of my professors, Scott Crider. He writes, “Ultimately, [The Winter's Tale] discloses to us the character of our [...]

GREEK!

I start my classical Greek intensive summer class tomorrow! I took two years at Covenant College, but I’m out of practice. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of things rather quickly, though. I’ll be translating Thucydides in no time! Right?

Paradise Lost

I am currently writing a paper on Milton’s Paradise Lost. I am treating the work as a representation of the epic genre and tracing the image of the garden throughout it and other epic works such as Homer’s Iliad/Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Melville’s Moby-Dick.
Below is my tentative thesis for your perusal:
“The garden is an image [...]

Worship

My recent trip to Colorado with the CCA high school brought to light many issues surrounding worship and the camp experience. One thing that frustrates me with contemporary evangelical approaches to worship (especially in youth settings) is the psychological manipulation that can take place. Everything seems to direct itself toward an emotional experience, [...]