Levertov’s “The Annunciation” sees Mary as making a momentous choice and not as a passive receptacle.
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Tag Archives: Denise Levertov
A Poem for Ash Wednesday
Eliot and Levertov have written powerful poems capturing the spirit of Ash Wednesday.
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Awe That Cracks the Heart’s Hardness
The mystery of God’s incarnation, Levertov tells us, is that God loves us despite our arrogance.
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A Young Black Servant Intently Listening
In another of her Easter poems, Levertov focusing on the servant serving the Emmaus dinner.
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Move Past Trump, Embrace the Morning
Life after Trump could be like emerging from an abusive relationship. Emily Bronte concludes “Wuthering Heights” with a useful image.
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Can We Love the Morning Again?
In this poem Levertov talks about the difficulties of loving the morning again after a night of horrors.
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The Dark World of the Suicidal
The suicide della Vigna in Dante’s Wood of Suicides is a noble man who, however, has lost touch with God.
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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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Lent: The Air Heavy and Thick
Spiritual Sunday I share today a good Lenten poem by Denise Levertov where the poet finds herself in a funk, albeit not a dramatic funk. She’s experiencing neither a “dark night of the soul” nor a scorching wasteland desert, those extreme moments of crisis that have pushed people to revelation. (Today’s Gospel reading is Jesus’s […]
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