Thomas Merton's On Nature And Art In William Blake

He had a different experience from the other pupils. At home, his single­mother had six

Cambridge. She was the second of 13 children. For years everyone in England had been

Finally his studies led him to France at the age of 21, where he studied under Paul Vidal for a short period of time and then under Mlle. Boulanger for three years. Before

Cambridge. She was the second of 13 children. For years everyone in England had been

very active in his community. He was a happy, well-educated child and was considered wealthy

He work throughout his young years and became very wise. When he was 16 he Enrolled in king’s college.

Winston Churchill led a very exciting and hard young life. He became a soldier and a journalist around age twenty and started traveling around the British Empire (“Winston Churchill Biography”). One time while he was “reporting on the Boer War in South Africa, he was taken prisoner by the Boers while on a scouting expedition” (“Winston Churchill Biography”). Before joining the military, Churchill spent a lot of time at boarding schools including Harrow, a well known boarding school,

He suffered many illnesses growing up, most of which were undiagnosed, and spent most of his time rejuvenating. He attended Harvard University, and while in England with his Father (the ambassador of the United Kingdom) he wrote his senior essay on the lack of readiness England had for World War II. His essay was later published and became the best seller, Why England Slept.

And he’d been under the assumption that, as long as he managed to remain out of his father’s line of sight, his life at nineteen would be similarly blessed. He was to attend Cambridge in the fall, along with all of his closest friends, where he had every intention of pursuing his studies and social life with equal fervor.

A Saracen princess followed a wealthy crusader from the Holy Land to London. In 1118 Thomas Becket was born on St. Thomas day. Thomas Becket came from a loving family and was very educated. Thomas Becket attended the canons regular a Merton Priority in Sussex, and then attended the University of Paris. When Becket returned home from college his parents had passed away. Thomas Becket was then urged to make his way through life with no aid from anyone and a better future. Anyone that knows Thomas Becket knows him as a strongly built and very spirited young man. Becket also loved to play field sports which he spent most of his spare time hawking and hunting.

had come to Bangor to find God and become a monk in his service. He had found both God and

In the eleventh century, “there was a host of monasteries who received exemptions from the jurisdiction of bishops, for which they made a payment to Rome, and associated themselves with Cluny. Cluny began to bring under its leadership other Benedictine monasteries, which had been isolated, to form a congregation of monasteries. Many Cluniac monks became bishops, and Cluniac abbots attended diocesan and provincial synods. In this time period, popes Clement II, Gregory VII, and Urban II were Cluniac monks.”

He would keep his distance from his family and rarely play with other children. In 1946, he was enrolled in Bridge Port Elementary school (Mellor, 2012). Despite his below average intelligence and near dyslexic English skills, he was able to graduate and then attended Cambridge Junior High where he was placed in the slow-learners class.

Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City There are many literary devices at work in Thomas James Merton’s poem “Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City” that contribute to the idea that external appearances may not always reflect internal experiences. Merton uses analogies to prisons and hospitals in addition to a number of references to cocaine and suicide in order to lead the reader in understanding that New York City may look extravagant on the outside while the residents inside are suffering. Thomas James Merton was a Trappist, which was a brotherhood of the Roman Catholic Church known for its extremely quiet atmosphere.

William Blake is one of England’s most famous literary figures. He is remembered and admired for his skill as a painter, engraver, and poet. He was born on Nov. 28, 1757 to a poor Hosier’s family living in or around London. Being of a poor family, Blake received little in the way of comfort or education while growing up. Amazingly, he did not attend school for very long and dropped out shortly after learning to read and write so that he could work in his father’s shop. The life of a hosier however was not the right path for Blake as he exhibited early on a skill for reading and drawing. Blake’s skill for reading can be seen in his understanding for and use of works such as the Bible and Greek classic literature.