Islam and poetry
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Faith, Tolkien & Poetry
Most of us do not read much poetry. Perhaps we imagine it to be difficult, obscure, or simply something belonging to another age. Yet a good poem can sometimes say in five or six lines what prose struggles to say in five or six pages. A few carefully chosen words can stay with us for… Continue reading
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Hunger Games & Harmful Hopes
Poetry, it is said, is ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful meanings.’ The following poem is no exception. For the poem speaks of a love beyond earthly love; of a deep yearning for what may soothe our sorrows. Though not at all religious, believers may uncover in the poem powerful symbols of religious sentiment: seekeing, yearning and a love sublimer than any… Continue reading