In the poem “When I consider how my light is spent”, the theme of light is meant to represent time and the poem discusses how we waste much of our daylight doing wasteful or even sinful things instead of putting our minds to work. I think the writing is specifically trying to say this in reference to religion, as all these poems seem to have underlying motifs of religion and faith. So the writer is trying to convey that we waste the divine light that God has given us by ignoring it and staying in the dark.
The story “A Red Palm”, there is a father who works in a cotton field to supply food to his poor family. I found this work the most relatable because when you do strenuous or boring activities it really has more to do with mental fortitude, like this work seems to implying and less to do with the physical strain of having your muscles worked. It's much harder to do something when your mental state isn't working with you. A person without legs is more likely to climb a staircase than someone with crippling depression.
In the last writing, The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education, it's again about a kind of mental fortitude with the underlying message of faith. There are a lot of misery people have to stumble through in order to get to their dreams of achieving academic success. This work shows how people need to hold on to their faith to get through it, which again is not about physical strength but the strength of the mind to pursue and persevere to become a smarter person.
I feel like all these works have faith in common, they all have to do with keeping strong and trudging up the mountain of life to get to where you need to be.
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