Poetry Ch. 7 POUI (4)

"Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new." (840)

I chose this quote from "Batter my heart, three-personed God" by John Donne because it was basically the only comparison in the poem I actually got. The break refers to the Son because He is broken so that we might be healed. (I feel like their is a church song that has it in it because that line keeps replaying in my mind, but I cannot recall the name of the song or the rest of the song.) The blow refers to the Holy Spirit because it is the breath of life and always associated with wind. The burn refers to God who is the light of the world, burning for all to see. (Now I have the "Go Light Your Candle" song in my head. I am not even sure if that is the title of the song, but it is in the chorus, so works for me.) Anyways, that was about the only comparison I could figure out. The other questions asked what the speaker and God were being compared to. I knew they were being compared to something, I just could not decipher what. However, despite my inability to pick out the comparisons, I think I still got the gist of the poem. I think that the speaker is asking God for forgiveness. He wants God to come into his life because the speaker is ready to admit Him. The speaker wants God to divorce him from his enemy (the devil?) and allow him to be married chastely to the church. This is taking the poem quite literally, so I may be wrong, but that's what I got.

Brave New World: 1

" 'Just to give you a general idea,' he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy mempers of society, as possible" (4).

Now that I have completed Never Let Me Go, I begin the journey through Brave New World. I am already able to already realize a similarity between the two. It seems that like Never Let Me Go, Brave New World is a novel with genetically enginerred beings as the main subjects. Brave New World seems to start at the beginning of the whole process rather than just jumping into the plot and filling in the gaps as the story progresses like Never Let Me Go. This first chapter begins with a tour of the facilities with explanation of the process for the new students. I think that this is also (if not more) to give readers an idea of what goes on at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The purpose of this introduction to the new students and the readers of the 21st century is to give general information about the happenings in the Hatchery so that we will be able to better understand what the coming chapters have to offer. Also, the confusing introduction to all of the unfamiliar processes is a way to lead into the action where we will discover more about these things, the purposes, and what is really going on here.