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Part 3 of my Critique of Matthew Hartke’s Post About Christianity and Cognitive Dissonance Theory (the end of this post is a bit out there…let’s see what you think!)

Posted on December 24, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 20 Comments

Welcome to Part 3 of my short critique of blogger Matthew Hartke’s post in which he puts forth the argument that the best way to explain the birth of Christiani...

Literature and Poetry/Spirituality/T.S. Eliot

A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 5-7)

Posted on March 27, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

In my previous two posts, 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 li...

Book Review/Literature and Poetry/Spirituality/T.S. Eliot

A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 3 and 4)

Posted on March 25, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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...

Biblical Studies/Literature and Poetry/Spirituality/T.S. Eliot

A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 1 and 2)

Posted on March 24, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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...

Literature and Poetry/T.S. Eliot

“The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot–A Reading and Explanation

Posted on March 12, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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...

Literature and Poetry/T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot: “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”

Posted on February 6, 2021 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 7 Comments

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...

Literature and Poetry/T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot: “Portrait of a Lady” (Some thoughts…and a Reading)

Posted on February 3, 2021 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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...

Literature and Poetry/T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Some thoughts…and a reading)

Posted on January 29, 2021 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 9 Comments

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...

Book Review/Literature and Poetry/T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Little Gidding

Posted on January 19, 2021 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 13 Comments

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. ...

Book Review/Literature and Poetry/T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: The Dry Salvages

Posted on January 15, 2021 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

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...

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