Themes

Question 1

Perelandra

C.S. Lewis

Answer 1

Temptation, an allegorical replay of Creation, “What if Adam and Eve had’nt sinned?”

Question 2

Pilgrim’s Progress

John Bunyan

Answer 2

Life and death urgency of the Christian journey, a journey of faith through skepticism (think Doubting Castle)

Question 3

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Answer 3

Retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, all about temptation and redemption

Question 4

The Sacrifice

George Herbert

Answer 4

Christ’s death

“Was ever grief like mine?”

Question 5

Holy Scriptures 1

George Herbert

Answer 5

The Bible heals, restores, shows fault and fixes it

Question 6

Holy Scriptures 2

George Herbert

Answer 6

Bible is like the constellations in it’s glory, it’s the light of eternal glory

Question 7

The Thanksgiving

George Herbert

Answer 7

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Question 8

A True Hymne

George Herbert

Answer 8

Even if written poorly, a hymn is anything which expresses true inward love of Christ

Question 9

The Altar

George Herbert

Answer 9

God uses our hearts to build an altar of praise, by shaping and molding our hearts made of stone

Question 10

Easter Wings

George Herbert

Answer 10

(written in the shape of wings)

No matter how terrible we are, Christ’s sacrifice lifts us up if only we’ll hold on to him

Question 11

The Author to Her Book

Anne Bradstreet

Answer 11

She feels terrible that her poetry was published because she thinks it’s poorly written
she equates her poetry to a child that she sent out of house in rags

Question 12

The Flesh and the Spirit

Anne Bradstreet

Answer 12

Shows the inward battle of our spirit and flesh fighting for control to obtain either worldly or heavenly pleasures

Question 13

Verses Upon the Burning of Our House

Anne Bradstreet

Answer 13

Her house was burnt to the ground and she shows an interesting back and forth battle of sadness for her loss and remembrance of God and eternal things which make silly any sadness over the house

Question 14

In Reference to Her Children

Anne Bradstreet

Answer 14

In an extended metaphor, she speaks of all her children as nestlings that have now grown and flown off to start their own homes and lives

Question 15

Divine Compassion
(John Greenleaf Whittier)

Answer 15

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Question 16

Lines From a Letter to a Young Clerical Friend

John Greenleaf Whittier

Answer 16

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Question 17

The Christian Slave

John Greenleaf Whittier

Answer 17

A vivid scene of a slave market to incite the Christians against the practice as well as to wound deeply those who stand by and allow it to happen

Question 18

The Slave Ships

John Greenleaf Whittier

Answer 18

Vivid retelling of slaves’ journey across the ocean written to incite the Christians against the practice as well as to wound deeply those who stand by and allow it to happen

Question 19

A Spiritual Manifestation

John Greenleaf Whittier

Answer 19

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Question 20

The Good-Morrow

John Donne

Answer 20

The wonder of how marriage changes your entire outlook and how he didn’t feel he was alive until he was married

Question 21

Death, Be Not Proud

John Donne

Answer 21

Death isn’t as powerful as we make it out to be; for a Christian, it’s a closing of our eyes until we open them to see Christ and then, “Death, thou shalt die.”

Question 22

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 1624 and Several Steps in My Sickness
(John Donne)

Answer 22

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Question 23

Batter My Heart, Three-person’d God

John Donne

Answer 23

He feels so trapped in sin and marred by his own mistakes that he feels he’ll never be free unless Christ saves him

Question 24

The Sun Rising

John Donne

Answer 24

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