Infinite Desire

Question 1

What is the point of the story of the clowns?

Answer 1

That we always need to believe god and the way he is trying to communiacte with us

Question 2

What are the village people a metaphor for?

Answer 2

christians

Question 3

What is the content of the painting The Wanderer?

Question 4

What is the Infinite desire?

Answer 4

The infinite need that will be fulfilled when we go to heaven

Question 5

What is one of the songs Fr. B played in class? Why is it relevant?

Question 6

Give one example from your life when you experienced the Infinite desire.

Question 7

What are the two ways in which we can approach finite things?

Question 8

What is the meaning behind the story of rocky valentine

Question 9

What are the two ways in which we can approach finite things?

Question 10

What is the main image of the poem “George Gray”?

Question 11

In which ways does life knock at George’s door?

Question 12

What characteristic of Chopin’s The Raindrop represent the Infinite desire?

Answer 12

the beats that continue throughout the whole song represent the infinite desire.

Question 13

In the Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia, what does the moon represent? What is the whole poem about?

Answer 13

the moon symbolizes God. The story is about a man named Jackamo who grew up in a heavily Catholic home but was not faithful to God, was faithful to his desire. he then saw a poor shepherd brining his sheep, who would talk to the moon, and his sheep. (unfinished question)

Question 14

What is sleep a prophecy of in the Leopardi’s poem?

Question 15

What are some of the questions the shepherd is asking in the poem? To whom are the questions addressed?

Question 16

What are the two ways the Modern world tries to escape Infinite desire?

Answer 16

1 way is from the internet/entertainment. we use many different types social media, tiktok, youtube, video games, etc; to try and escape and distract ourselves from the infinite desire. the 2nd way is by being in control.

Question 17

What is the story told in the song “Car Radio”?

Answer 17

that there is no distraction to distract ourselves from whats real, (like going online to distract yourself)

Question 18

What is the example of the flowers about? How does it apply to our lives?

Answer 18

(the example is someone put flowers, a dog, chocolate, etc, in your room and you completely ignored it and moved on with your day) so, its about you opening your eyes to see things you didn’t put there or create or control, and you’re apart of that. the most rational thing is to ask yourself, how they got there, and who sent them.

Question 19

How does wonder make us aware of the infinite desire?

Question 20

What is the point of the scene from “The Tree of Life” we watched?