T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Some thoughts…and a reading)
It really says something about how difficult T.S. Eliot’s poetry can be when the one, if not only, poem almost every high school English Literature curriculum h...
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T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Little Gidding
Little Gidding is the fourth and final poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Written in 1942, it essentially signaled the end of Eliot’s public career as a poet. ...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: The Dry Salvages
Dry Salvages is the third poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. It is the only poem of the Four Quartets that includes an introductory note to tell us that the Dr...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: East Coker
East Coker is the second poem in T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, Four Quartets. East Coker is the actual village in Somersetshire, England from which Eliot’s ancestor...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Burnt Norton
I’m going to start this year’s edition of Resurrecting Orthodoxy a little differently. Instead of a book analysis, or something about YECism, or a Biblical Stud...
The Song of Solomon: A Reading
I admit that this is a rather different kind of post. In my Wisdom Literature class, we are currently going over The Song of Solomon, a book that, let’s f...
Two Easter Poems…
I thought I’d share two poems I wrote quite awhile ago. The first one is 25 years old–I wrote it on the Easter my sister and I were stranded in Colb...
The Genre, Historical Context, and Purpose of Genesis 1-11
Genesis: O Where to Begin? The book of Genesis is about beginnings: the beginning of creation, of humanity, and of civilization itself. Now, many of us in the m...
Easter Poems Throughout the Years
I thought I’d share a few Easter poems I’ve written throughout the years. ***The first poem was in Colby, Kansas, in 1993. I was helping my sister m...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 56): Now for something a bit different…Poetry, Art, Music, and Perspective
When I was in college, I fell in love with poetry and literature, and some of the most influential literature I came across of that of the 19th century Romantic...