Hawthorne explores what Jesus means by the “eternal sin” in a number of stories, including “Scarlet Letter.”
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Hawthorne Explains the Eternal Sin
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Scraping One’s Knees on Jacob’s Ladder
Denise Levertov draws on the Jacob’s dream about a stairway to heaven to capture poetry’s transcendent qualities.
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Strike My Heart So the Tears Will Flow
Good Friday In her poem “Good Friday,” Christina Rossetti laments that she responds to Christ’s death like a stone, not a faithful sheep. Why can’t she be like the women who wept at the foot of the cross, or Peter who wept for his betrayal, or the sun and the moon that hid their faces? […]
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A Divine Stairway of Sharp Angles
Levertov uses to story of Jacob’s Ladder to describe the miracle of poetry.
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Here Is No Water but Only Rock
Dry rocks have functioned as images of spiritual desolation throughout the history of Good Friday poetry.
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