Beautifully insightful. The final paragraph of the story of the Old Man in the Sea was incredibly poignant and true. It's hard to find the balance of being attuned to suffering, but also able to handle it . . . or better said, to entrust it to God.
Poignant story beautifully illustrates a difficult theme. I've always counted this Auden poem as one of my all-time favorites. I keep coming back to its ideas as time goes by, and don't like what this might mean. (But so it goes--if it does mean, it does mean.)
Beautifully insightful. The final paragraph of the story of the Old Man in the Sea was incredibly poignant and true. It's hard to find the balance of being attuned to suffering, but also able to handle it . . . or better said, to entrust it to God.
Poignant story beautifully illustrates a difficult theme. I've always counted this Auden poem as one of my all-time favorites. I keep coming back to its ideas as time goes by, and don't like what this might mean. (But so it goes--if it does mean, it does mean.)