blog 5

The five poems we read over in class had very interesting meanings behind them. They all seemed a little dark to me but all had a message they were trying to get across. Story number five my Mary Oliver called After Death and From Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot were my two favorite choices. They both discussed the darkness that the world feels. They both spoke about how people in the world felt like they were sad, alone and no hope. But all of the stories had some glisten of hope. This glisten of hope was not specified, but it a Christian was reading it, they would know which the hope was referring to, Jesus.

Out of all five stories I preferred the Four Quartets. Some found this story a little hard to follow but I really believe is it the true journey of a human. Throughout the story it discusses how everything in life comes to an end, everything has a dark side. The aspect that I appreciated about it was the feeling that it gave about how once everything was quiet it was a bad thing. It gave the illusion that once the business and noise was gone there was emptiness in the silence. Towards the end it talked about hope, and how all hope is lost until you bring in some key factors. The key factors were faith, and love. The poem said without one you cannot have the other, but once you had one, the others would come. It said that once you had these factors the silence and the dark were no longer a bad thing, but brought in dancing and celebration. This is a perfect example on how when Jesus comes into our lives he brings a new element that nothing in this world can create.