In Donne’s “Ascension,” Jesus transforms from strong ram to mild lamb to guide the poet to God.
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Holy Ghost: Warm Breast and Bright Wings
Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur” captures the magnificent but intimate moment when the Holy Spirit enters us.
A World Charged with God’s Grandeur
Hopkins captures associates the Holy Spirit with the coming of spring, where we reconnect with nature’s beauty.
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Pulled into the Ring of the Dance
In her Pentecostal poem “Caedmon,” Denise Levertov describes the moment when the early British poet was filled with the Holy Spirit and learned the art of song.
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A Comforter to Guide Us in All Truth
Jesus’s promise to his disciples, to send them “another advocate with the father,” is picked up by a disheartened Milton as he seeks to justify the ways of God to man–and to himself.
What in Me Is Dark Illumine
An epiphany is the moment when something divine enters the human realm. During the Epiphany season, Christians celebrate such moments. In the famous opening of “Paradise Lost,” Milton notes that the Holy Spirit is his muse and connects his own inspiration with a number of famous visitations of the Holy Spirit throughout Biblical history.
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The Creator Spirit’s Deep Embrace
Denise Levertov’s “Avowal” equates opening oneself to God to opening oneself to “the Creator Spirit.”
A Bright Torch Shines to Show the Way
John Donne’s “Ascension” captures the paradoxes of the resurrection and ascension.
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