A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 3 and 4)
In my previous post, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the link to...
Category: Literature and Poetry
A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 1 and 2)
Back in 1991, I graduated college with a major in English Literature, and I read and wrote quite a bit of poetry. In particular, after college I got immensely i...
“The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot–A Reading and Explanation
Last year, I did a blog series in which I did readings of various T.S. Eliot poems, in which I also provided brief explanations and analyses of those poems. For...
Something New: Joel’s Music Sharing Time (Music that has impacted my life: Bob Bennett’s “Matters of the Heart”)
This post is the start of something different I will occasionally do on my blog. Having grown up in the Evangelical world of the 70s-80s, I was deeply influence...
Jason Lisle Picks a Fight with William Lane Craig (Part 2 of my look at Lisle’s critique of WLC’s new book)
A few days ago, I started a series on the recent criticisms that YECist Jason Lisle has had about William Lane Craig’s new book, The Quest for the Historical Ad...
T.S. Eliot: “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”
Rhapsody on a Windy Night has always been one of my favorite poems by T.S. Eliot. In many ways, it is one of the easiest to read and understand. As the title su...
T.S. Eliot: “Portrait of a Lady” (Some thoughts…and a Reading)
T.S. Eliot’s poem Portrait of a Lady was first published in 1917, in Eliot’s book of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem is about guilt and broken...
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...
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...