Poem Analysis: Itake Me To Church

In Mark Jarman 's poem, "If I Were Paul," the speaker displays many changes in tone and diction to illustrate the crux of his ideology. The first three stanzas are completely exalting in their nature. The speaker uses three distinct categories to do this: creation of a being, virtue of an idea, and discovery of an object, and each of the first stanzas are devoted to one of these topics. Each of these subsets are purposefully selected to create a tone of artistry and fascination in the beginning stanzas of the poem. Eventually, the speaker changes tone to display the hypocrisy in the modern church. To a superficial reader, the speaker is rebuking a congregation, but further analysis reveals the speaker is attempting to write as a contemporary Paul of Tarsus, pointing out inconsistencies in the modern Christian faith.

Artist, Kesha, co-wrote and sang the song titled “Praying.” In the video that she created for the song she shows us, the audience, what she went through during her healing process from the sexual and mental violence she received. Through many methods, such as religious references, Kesha took us through her journey through ethos, logos, and pathos.

“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” helps the reader to frame the word love into the classification of Agape Love. The author introduces us to the subject “Love” as a supernatural Being that encompasses just the purest definition of the word (1). This Love was dwelling as outside the temporal and terrestrial territory (2). However, this Love decided to leave and come to earth because of compassion (4), mercy (5), and unbounded love (6) for humanity. Love with its attributes of mercy, compassion, and love aim to bring salvation (7) for the people that have “trembling” or fear God(8).

“Take me to church” is written by an Irish musician Andrew Hozier-Byrneand himself and co-produced by Rob Kirwan. The song was released on September 13, 2013, and it was his second debut extended play. Hozier is experienced a bad broke-up when he started work on this song. He said that “Take me to church” was a real homemade job since he wrote and recorded the song in the loft of his parents' home in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.

I found the concept of the strong relationship with love and religion to be quite interesting in “Ego Dormio”. While we often think that love is created by friend, family, and the relationships we have between these groups Rolle challenges this notion by proposing the opposite. It really makes me wonder the emotions of love that are connected with God and Jesus versus the emotions connected with family. Is love more simple or is it less clear cut? Another part of the piece that I found interesting was the degrees of love. It really struck me when he said that the frst degree of love is when one keeps the Ten Commandments, I really wondered what emotions that evoked from a person. Is it really just the act of keeping them that makes us love

rre to Santiago, my head cleared just enough to realize the full-blown state of exhaustive delirium with which I’d entered the square at St. James’ Cathedral two days before.

The Book is about Love. The entire Bible says about the relationship between God and his Creation; more specifically – between Christ and His Bride – the Church; more personally – between Jesus – my Spouse – and my soul. Therefore, Song of the Songs implies to me a mirrored (reflected) picture of this relationship, the “best one”, comparing it to a loving, intimate covenant between man and woman. How much God desires to be close to us!

I have chosen a poem by E. E. Cummings that’s called “I Carry Your Heart”.

The persona’s hate, though, does not stem from a true dislike but from fear – fear that if more people began to feel love then they would not be so beholden to the state and the power of the state would be diminished. The persona states that the lovers’ laughter is an insult, though to whom is the insult directed? It is an insult to the state because, through all of the dreariness that is their life, the lovers have found something that the state cannot control (their love for each other) and they relish that. Their laughing is not an insult; quite the contrary, they are laughing because in their world they are one and that makes their world an idyllic place. The third stanza ends with the line; “And their little celebrations, rituals, the elaborate mutual routines – it’s obviously a plot behind the human race’s back!” (lines 19 – 21) To any regime, the ultimate fear is that they lose control of the citizenry – the cogs in an unemotional machine. When the persona cannot explain (or accept) how love can occur, the only “logical” answer is that it must be a plot against the state (the human race.) Why else would these disrespectful citizens waste their energy on each other rather than towards the advancement of the state?

Love within the modern society has taken on a flippant meaning, depending on the phraseology used around the context of the word. Love is used interchangeably with the idea that “I love apple pie” to “I love this new car” to the point in which the term love is devalued within our society. How can one say they love their spouse or children and not devalue the true meaning of this intent, when they claim to love apple pie as well? Within the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a careful evaluation of the love’s within the play will reveal the difference in the types of love one might feel to describe various situations and relationships. Within this evaluation, we can determine there are at least three distinct types of love displayed: forced love, which is no real love at all , romantic love or eros love and parental love or stergein love.

Hozier demonstrates his humanistic point of view in the chorus, where he explicitly criticizes centralized church and God himself. In order to express his anger, the speaker uses a rhetorical trope called apostrophe. Since it takes strength to address a deity, the apostrophe serves to exhibit humans’ bravery and self-reliance.

Love is a strong and lasting affection between spouses or lovers who are in a happy, passionate and fulfilling relationship. It can also be an unbreakable bond sustained through all the ups and downs faced in life, an everlasting feeling. This unconditional form of the feeling is rare and is usually found between parent and child relationships. It is, without a doubt, the most discussed feeling in the world. The feeling has been the source of thoughts for many different poets since the beginning of time and has been portrayed in a variety of ways. Such distinctive portrayals of love consist of; the varying definitions of love; exploration of obsessive love; the depiction of unconditional love.

Attempting to treat the ‘pastoral’ as a distinct mode which has endured from Theocritus and Philitas to the Romanticist and finally Post-Modernist world is highly anachronistic . And that is not the assumption which I have made in the title. Instead of reading ‘pastoral’ into the corpus of a poet who may have not even conceived it, this essai (and I have chosen that word carefully) is an effort to survey the poems of Catullus for evidence of agricultural, floral and rustic motifs. But Catullus is not a poet with whom this mode is traditionally associated. Indeed, the standard account of ‘Roman Pastoral’ begins with the “second birth of Theocratic poetry” in Virgil’s Eclogues which are typically credited with introducing the juxtaposition between urban and rural lifestyles as a political allegory . But Virgil probably also drew on the agricultural works of Cato and later Varro. Hence, since there is no evidence of this mode existing in previous Latin authors, Catullus must have derived any understanding of ‘pastoral’ from Cato and surviving works of the Hellenistic poets, in particular Theocritus . Therein is problem with our question. Whether Theocritus employed Arcadian motifs as a means of bringing out the pastoral charm of the land or understood them as something constituting a literary mode that embodied a lifestyle is highly contentious, and for Catullus even more so . This speculatory nature is probably what has dissuaded recent scholarship from engaging in such a

An example of how romanticism and how love is portrayed is gay love. Originally love was between a Man and a Woman, now we are seeing more and more love stories between the same sex. Sonnet 18 was completely written about a Man who loves a Woman, everything was just about perfect. Just like other poems in that time it had a happy ending. In "Take Me To Church", throughout the whole song it depicts a sad and depressing tone, in fact, it HAS a sad and depressing tone. The meter is the same throughout the whole song.  The lyrics explain that the Church and Catholic belief believes that they're sick and that they're in the wrong doing. Do you believe that they're in the wrong? (PAUSE COUNT TO 3)

Temptation is something that a person experiences in his or her life sooner or later. How one deals with it is what defines them as a person. Giving into temptation may cause people to make irreversible mistakes. On the other hand, if a person is able to resist the desire for something, his or her willpower is greatly displayed. Norma was placed in a situation where her resistance was tested, she was left making a decision that would make or break her life. Temptation is the reoccurring theme in this short story, because it causes conflict between Norma and Arthur, Arthur’s death, and makes Norma unable to differentiate between what is right versus wrong.