Love and religon Flashcards
Paragraph 1
(TGG + TGOL)
William Blake
The love of power and greed causes the loss of religion and faith.
TGG-
1) “It increased her value in his eyes”
2) “‘His eyes dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground”
3) “The green light”
4) “‘Terrible place isn’t it’, said Tom, exchanging a frown with Doctor Eckleburg”
GOL-
1) “And tomb-stones where flowers should be”
2) “And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds”
3) “And ‘thou shalt not’ writ over the door”
Paragraph 2
(TGG + AAI)
Thomas Hardy
In The Great Gatsby, religion is kind to those who find love for the right reasons - however in At An Inn, the speaker feels that religion has abandoned him and not let him love.
TGG-
1) “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”
2) “Dimly I heard someone murmur ‘Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on,’ and then the owl-eyed man said ‘Amen to that,’ in a brave voice.”
3) “Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.”
AAI-
1) “Why shaped us for his sport in after-hours?”
2) “And now deemed come, came not; within his hold”
3) “And palsied unto death the pane fly’s tune” (Homophone - pane and pain. He’s watching something futile and pointless / metaphor for god and them?)
Paragraph 3
(TGG + TGOL)
In both texts, it expresses how religion should be about love and expression, howe
