Themes Flashcards
(24 cards)
Perelandra
C.S. Lewis
Temptation, an allegorical replay of Creation, “What if Adam and Eve had’nt sinned?”
Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan
Life and death urgency of the Christian journey, a journey of faith through skepticism (think Doubting Castle)
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, all about temptation and redemption
The Sacrifice
George Herbert
Christ’s death
“Was ever grief like mine?”
Holy Scriptures 1
George Herbert
The Bible heals, restores, shows fault and fixes it
Holy Scriptures 2
George Herbert
Bible is like the constellations in it’s glory, it’s the light of eternal glory
The Thanksgiving
George Herbert
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A True Hymne
George Herbert
Even if written poorly, a hymn is anything which expresses true inward love of Christ
The Altar
George Herbert
God uses our hearts to build an altar of praise, by shaping and molding our hearts made of stone
Easter Wings
George Herbert
(written in the shape of wings)
No matter how terrible we are, Christ’s sacrifice lifts us up if only we’ll hold on to him
The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet
She feels terrible that her poetry was published because she thinks it’s poorly written
she equates her poetry to a child that she sent out of house in rags
The Flesh and the Spirit
Anne Bradstreet
Shows the inward battle of our spirit and flesh fighting for control to obtain either worldly or heavenly pleasures
Verses Upon the Burning of Our House
Anne Bradstreet
Her house was burnt to the ground and she shows an interesting back and forth battle of sadness for her loss and remembrance of God and eternal things which make silly any sadness over the house
In Reference to Her Children
Anne Bradstreet
In an extended metaphor, she speaks of all her children as nestlings that have now grown and flown off to start their own homes and lives
Divine Compassion (John Greenleaf Whittier)
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Lines From a Letter to a Young Clerical Friend
John Greenleaf Whittier
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The Christian Slave
John Greenleaf Whittier
A vivid scene of a slave market to incite the Christians against the practice as well as to wound deeply those who stand by and allow it to happen
The Slave Ships
John Greenleaf Whittier
Vivid retelling of slaves’ journey across the ocean written to incite the Christians against the practice as well as to wound deeply those who stand by and allow it to happen
A Spiritual Manifestation
John Greenleaf Whittier
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The Good-Morrow
John Donne
The wonder of how marriage changes your entire outlook and how he didn’t feel he was alive until he was married
Death, Be Not Proud
John Donne
Death isn’t as powerful as we make it out to be; for a Christian, it’s a closing of our eyes until we open them to see Christ and then, “Death, thou shalt die.”
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 1624 and Several Steps in My Sickness
(John Donne)
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Batter My Heart, Three-person’d God
John Donne
He feels so trapped in sin and marred by his own mistakes that he feels he’ll never be free unless Christ saves him
The Sun Rising
John Donne
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