Friday, April 22, 2011

Response of Hope

Dear Virginia,
I'm sorry that you feel that way, but please don't feel like that. I know that what we have together is extremely special and one-of-a-kind, that's why I love you too. Our relationship together is so special, and nothing in this corrupt world should ever be able break us apart from each other. Please don't think that you spoil my life, because you actually make my life fun and enjoyable. 1 Corinthians 14:4 says, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud... Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." Our love for each other will protect us, which means that you should not worry. I really do love you, and I hope that you believe me and trust that my love for you is true. Be strong in the Lord, and make sure to ask Him for guidance! He will help you in these rough times! I hope to hear from you soon!
God Bless!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

Kipling Short Story

1) Title: "Lispeth"
2) A key theme in this short-story is the fact that Christianity makes people strong and beautiful. Once a person drifts away from the religion, he/she will become frail and weak. Another important moral that is shown in the short-story is the importance to always tell the truth, even if the truth may hurt. Christians should never lie; therefore, the Chaplain's wife was wrong to lie about the Englishman returning to marry Lispeth.
3) This short-story was pretty good and engaging. Unlike many other short-stories, this story progressed very well and had interesting ideas that occurred throughout the whole story. The fact that this story spoke about "love at first sight" was probably another reason why this story was interesting, since it seems that many people have mixed opinions about it. To be able to notice that the author's views of "love at first sight" were similar to mine was pretty cool, mainly because the way that the events unwrapped after Lispeth's "love" to the Englishman was very similar to the way I would describe a "love at first sight" relationship.   
Kipling, Rudyard. "Lispeth." Read Book Online. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2478/>.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Hopkins





"God's Grandeur"
By: Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

The last line, "World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings," clearly shows the literary characteristic of alliteration. There is a repetition of the sounds in both the letters "w" and "b" throughout the whole line, but mainly the letter "w."

Hopkins, Gerard. “Pied Beauty.” British Literature. Ed. Ronald A Horton. 2nd ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 675. Print.

Hopkins, Gerard. “God’s Grandeur.” British Literature. Ed. Ronald A Horton. 2nd ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 676. Print.