C.S.+Lewis


 * ==__C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963):__==
 * (Cline Staples Lewis)


 * Chronicles of Narnia
 * The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
 * Prince Caspian
 * The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
 * The Silver Chair
 * The Horse and his Boy
 * The Magician's Nephew
 * The Last Battle
 * After Prayers, Lie Cold
 * An Ecpostulation
 * As The Rain Falls
 * Cliche Came Out of its Cage
 * Evolutionary Hymn
 * On A Vulgar Error
 * On Being Human
 * Prelude To Space
 * Re-adjustment
 * Science-Fiction Cradle-song
 * The Condemned
 * The Country of the Blind
 * The Meteorite

__//**Brief History:**//__ > He also could be argued to hold the title of the most influential Christian Writer of his day. C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast Ireland on November 29, 1898. Cline's works included literary criticism of other works, popular theology, fantasy, and is most known for his contributions to children's literature with his creation of one of the most enchanting series called the Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis won several awards for his literary and scholarly actions such as the Chancellor's English Essay in 1921, Gollancz Memorial Price in 1937, he was also awarded the Carnegie Award, which so happens to be the highest honor of children's literature. In 1959 he gained the title of Doctor of Literature at the University of Manchester. He was also apart of an extremely famous literary organization entitled, "The Inklings". This group included writers such as Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams, Dr. Robert Harvard, Oven Barfield, and Nevil Coghill. Throughout Lewis' extremely successful life he taught as several colleges and wrote insane amounts of poems, stories, articles, did radio talk shows, along with many other extremely amazing talents. He died one week prior to his 65th birthday on November 22, 1963, his death was caused by a combination of several aliments such as a heart attack and kidney issues.
 * C.S. Lewis was a brilliant writer, he was considered an intellectual giant of the 20th century.[[image:ravenseniors/Jellesmak5.jpg width="350" height="458" align="right"]]

//__**Poems and Connections!**__//

Against too many writers of science fiction
 * An Expostulation:**

Why did you lure us on like this, __Light-year on light-year,__ through the abyss, Building (as though we cared for size!) // Empires that cover galaxies // If at the journey's end we find The //**same old stuff**// we left behind, **Well-worn Tellurian stories** of Crooks, spies, conspirators, or love, Whose setting might as well have been The Bronx, Montmartre, or Bedinal Green?

Why should I leave **this green-floored cell**, **Roofed with blue air**, in which we dwell, Unless, outside its //**guarded gates**//, __Long, long desired,__ the Unearthly waits //Strangeness that moves us// more than fear, // Beauty that stabs with tingling spear, // Or //Wonder, laying on one's heart// That finger-tip at which we start // As if some thought too swift and shy // For //reason's grasp// had just gone by?

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 * Literary Technique:
 * **Imagery**:
 * Mental images given off by description
 * "Roofed with blue air"
 * "Well-worn Tellurian stories"
 * "this green-floored cell"
 * ////Personification:////
 * Attribution of personal qualities in representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form
 * "Strangeness that moves us "
 * ​" Beauty that stabs with tingling spear,"
 * " Wonder, laying on one's heart"
 * " As if some thought too swift and shy"
 * "reason's grasp"
 * __Repetition:__
 * The act or instance of being repeated for larger impact within literature.
 * "Light-year on light-year,"
 * "Long, long desired, "
 * //**Alliteration:**//
 * The repetition of using initial consonant sound in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
 * "**s**ame old **s**tuff"
 * "**C**rooks, spies, **c**onspirators"
 * "**g**uarded **g**ates "

//__**Connection:**__// **Tangled - Mother Knows Best:**

Look at you, as fragile as a flower

Still a little sapling, just a sprout

You know why we stay up in this tower That's right, to keep you safe and sound, dear

Guess I always knew this day was coming Knew that soon you'd want to leave the nest Soon, but not yet Trust me, pet Mother knows best

Mother knows best Listen to your mother It's a scary world out there

Mother knows best One way or another Something will go wrong, I swear

Ruffians, thugs Poison ivy, quicksand Cannibals and snakes The plague

Also large bugs Men with pointy teeth, and Stop, no more, you'll just upset me Mother's right here Mother will protect you

Darling, here's what I suggest Skip the drama Stay with mama Mama knows best

Mother knows best Take it from your mumsy On your own, you won't survive Sloppy, underdressed Immature, clumsy Please, they'll eat you up alive Gullible, naÎve Positively grubby Ditzy and a bit, well, hmm vague Plus, I believe Gettin' kinda chubby I'm just saying 'cause I wuv you

Mother understands Mother's here to help you All I have is one request

Don't ever ask to leave this tower again.

>> >>>
 * **Similar Themes:**
 * Exaggerations of reality.
 * **Hyperbole:**
 * //An Expostulation://
 * " Empires that cover galaxies"
 * "Light-year on light-year, through the abyss, building"
 * //Mother Knows Best://
 * "It's a scary world out there"
 * "Ruffians, thugs, poison ivy, quicksand, cannibals and snakes, the plague, also large bugs, men with pointy teeth,"
 * "On your own, you won't survive"
 * "they'll eat you up alive"
 * **Simile:**
 * //An Expostulation://
 * "Whose setting might as well have been the Bronx, Montmartre, or Bedinal Green"
 * //Mother Knows Best://
 * "as fragile as a flower"

I thought there would be a **grave beauty, a sunset splendour** In being the last of one's kind: a topmost moment as one watched Turning away with wounded Arthur, or Ilium burning. Now I see that, all along, I was assuming a posterity Of gentle hearts: someone, however distant in the depths of time, Who could pick up our signal, who could understand a story. There won't be.
 * Re-adjustment:**
 * __The huge wave curving over Atlantis,__** the shrouded barge

//Between the new Hembidae and us who are dying, already// //__There rises a barrier across which no voice can ever carry__,// For devils are unmaking language. We must let that alone forever. //Uproot your loves, one by one, with care, from the future//, //And trusting to no future, receive the massive thrust// //And surge of the many-dimensional timeless rays converging// On this small, __**significant dew drop, the present that mirrors all**__ >>> >>> There rises a barrier across which no voice can ever carry," >>> And surge of the many-dimensional timeless rays converging"
 * **Imagery:**
 * Mental images given off by description
 * grave beauty, a sunset splendour"
 * "huge wave curving over Atlantis"
 * "significant dew drop, the present that mirrors all"
 * //Symbolism://
 * The art or practice of using symbols, especially by investing thing with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations.
 * "Between the new Hembidae and us who are dying, already
 * "Uproot your loves, one by one, with care, from the future"
 * "And trusting to no future, receive the massive thrust
 * __Hyperbole:__
 * Extravagant exaggeration
 * "There rises a barrier across which no voice can ever carry"
 * "The huge wave curving over Atlantis, the shrouded barge"
 * "significant dew drop, the present that mirrors all"

There are few who'd deny, at what I do I am the best For my talents are renowned far and wide When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night I excel without ever even trying With the slightest little effort of my ghostlike charms I have seen grown men give out a shriek With the wave of my hand, and a well-placed moan I have swept the very bravest off their feet Yet year after year, it's the same routine And I grow so weary of the sound of screams And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King Have grown so tired of the same old thing Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones An emptiness began to grow There's something out there, far from my home A longing that I've never known I'm a master of fright, and a demon of light And I'll scare you right out of your pants To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky And I'm known throughout England and France And since I am dead, I can take off my head To recite Shakespearean quotations No animal nor man can scream like I can With the fury of my recitations But who here would ever understand That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin Would tire of his crown, if they only understood He'd give it all up if he only could Oh, there's an empty place in my bones That calls out for something unknown The fame and praise come year after year Does nothing for these empty tears
 * Tim Burton (Danny Elfman) - Jack's Lament - Nightmare Before Christmas**

**The Country of the Blind:** //**Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men**,// //Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long// //Process, clearly, a slow curse,// //Drained through centuries, left them thus.//
 * **Common Theme:**
 * Wanting for something more
 * **Imagery:**
 * //Re-Adjustment://
 * "grave beauty, a sunset splendour"
 * "huge wave curving over Atlantis"
 * "significant dew drop, the present that mirrors all"
 * //Jack's Lament://
 * "surprises in the moonlit night "
 * "ghostlike charms"
 * "master of fright, and a demon of light"
 * "No animal nor man can scream like I can"

At some transitional stage, then, a luckless few, No doubt, must have had eyes after the up-to-date, Normal type had achieved snug
 * Darkness, safe from the guns of heaven;**

Whose blind mouths would abuse words that belonged to their Fungoid sense, as a symbol of
 * Great-grandsires, unabashed, talking of light in some**
 * Eunuch'd, etiolated,**

Abstract thoughts. If a man, one that had eyes, a poor Misfit, **spoke of the grey dawn or the stars or green-**
 * Sloped sea waves, or admired how**
 * Warm tints change in a lady's cheek**,

__None complained__ he had used words from an alien tongue, __None question'd.__ It was worse. //All would agree 'Of course,'// //Came their answer. "We've all felt// //Just like that." They were wrong.// And he

Knew too much to be clear, could not explain. The words -- Sold, raped flung to the dogs -- now could avail no more; Hence silence. But the mouldwarps, With glib confidence, easily

Showed how tricks of the phrase, sheer metaphors could set Fools concocting a myth, taking the worlds for things. Do you think this a far-fetched Picture? Go then about among

Men now famous; attempt speech on the truths that once,
 * Opaque, carved in divine forms, irremovable,**
 * Dear but dear as a mountain-**
 * Mass, stood plain to the inward eye.**

>>> Eunuch'd, etiolated," >>> Sloped sea waves, or admired how >>> Warm tints change in a lady's cheek" >>> Dear but dear as a mountain- >>> Mass, stood plain to the inward eye." >>> Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long >>> Process, clearly, a slow curse, >>> Drained through centuries, left them thus." >>> Came their answer. "We've all felt >>> Just like that." They were wrong."
 * **Imagery:**
 * Mental images given off by description
 * "Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men"
 * "Darkness, safe from the guns of heaven;"
 * "Great-grandsires, unabashed, talking of light in some
 * "spoke of the grey dawn or the stars or green-
 * "Opaque, carved in divine forms, irremovable,
 * //Characterization://
 * The artistic representation of human character or motives.
 * "Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men,
 * "All would agree 'Of course,'
 * __Repetition:__
 * The act or instance of being repeated for larger impact within literature.
 * "None complained"
 * "None question'd."

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner or Later those you love will do the same for you .And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. But don't you worry. No more ashes, no more sackcloth. And an armband made of black cloth Will some day never more adorn a sleeve. For if the bomb that drops on you Gets your friends and neighbors too, There will be nobody left behind to grieve. And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we all will go together when we go. We will all go together when we go. All suffuse with an incandescent glow. No one will have the endurance To collect on his insurance, Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go. Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry. Down by the old maelstrom, There'll be a storm before the calm. And we will all bake together when we bake. There'll be nobody present at the wake. With complete participation In that grand incineration, Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak. Oh we will all char together when we char. And let there be no moaning of the bar. Just sing out a te deum When you see that i.c.b.m., And the party will be "Come As You Are" Oh we will all burn together when we burn. There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn. When it's time for the fallout And saint peter calls us all out, We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn. You will all go directly to your respective valhallas. Go directly, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollar's. And we will all go together when we go. Ev'ry hottenhot and ev'ry eskimo. When the air becomes uranious, And we will all go simultaneous. Yes we all will go together When we all go together, Yes we all will go together when we go
 * Tom Lehrer - We All Go Together When We Go**

>>> Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long >>> Process, clearly, a slow curse, >>> Drained through centuries," >>> Sloped sea waves, or admired how >>> Warm tints change in a lady's cheek" >>> Dear but dear as a mountain- >>> Mass, stood plain to the inward eye" >>> And an armband made of black cloth " >>> >>>
 * **Common Theme:**
 * Conformity shall take over
 * **Imagery:**
 * //The Country of the Blind://
 * "Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men,
 * "Darkness, safe from the guns of heaven;"
 * "grey dawn or the stars or green-
 * "The words --Sold, raped flung to the dogs"
 * "Opaque, carved in divine forms, irremovable,
 * //We'll All Go Together When We Go://
 * "No more ashes, no more sackcloth.
 * "All suffuse with an incandescent glow"
 * "We'll be french fried potatoes"
 * "Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak"
 * "no moaning of the bar"

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