I’m always shocked by how many songs I loved before converting either contain Christian themes or are straight-up church songs. I seriously had no idea. Reader, perhaps to you Panis Angelicus is obvious: Bread of Angels. Yes, that is a song about the Eucharist. You could say, well if you don’t know Panis refers to […]
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Poetry Analysis: Two Views of a Garden
Mary Oliver’s “On Not Mowing the Lawn.” and Andrew Marvell’s “Garden” both deal with themes of nature, gardens, and the reversion of order to wildness. “On Not Mowing the Lawn” is exuberant and commands us to let the lawn be, to let the grass spring up and the birds sing and the crickets chirp. In […]
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