{"id":338,"date":"2017-04-10T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=338"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:57:12","slug":"a-hymn-to-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/for-the-love-of-god\/a-hymn-to-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hymn to Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was interesting to read\u00a0&#8220;A Hymn to Christ&#8221; and noticing the way, yet again, Donne inverts and twists a metaphor. When writing\u00a0about a\u00a0tree, he says, &#8220;as the tree&#8217;s sap doth seek the root below, in winter, in my winter now I go&#8230;&#8221; Rarely do we think about downward motion with nature: trees and flowers evoke imagery of growth, of blooming upwards. Usually the &#8220;movement&#8221; of literature is towards spring and summer, instead of winter. This is especially fascinating to me when taken in the context of religious imagery: &#8220;the tree of life&#8221;; &#8220;the tree of knowledge,&#8221; but also Ovid, and\u00a0Pagan connotations. Any thoughts about how Donne uses nature to speak about religious themes in these poems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was interesting to read\u00a0&#8220;A Hymn to Christ&#8221; and noticing the way, yet again, Donne inverts and twists a metaphor. When writing\u00a0about a\u00a0tree, he says, &#8220;as the tree&#8217;s sap doth seek the root below, in winter, in my winter now I go&#8230;&#8221; Rarely do we think about downward motion with nature: trees and flowers evoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-love-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}