Jacob Sabins - Milton, Soto, Kolvenbach

            Doing a little background research into John Milton who wrote “When I consider how my light is spent”, he started to go blind during the mid years of his life and the poem is him lamenting about how he is going blind. He starts by questioning why God would take away his sight so that he cannot use his great talent, writing poetry, anymore. However as the poem goes on, he realizes that he must trust God and the actions he did are part of his greater plan and to truly worship and serve God, he must have trust and faith that God is doing the right thing.


For the next poem, “The Red Palm” by Gary Soto depicts a man doing backbreaking labor in order to provide basic necessities for his family such as groceries and electricity. Throughout much of the poem, its walks through the life of the man, but once you reach the end of the poem, his child comes and the man asks him a math question and that shows you that the father, who used to not value an education as he has to work in the field all day, wants a better life for hs kids as he is trying to get the educated so they do not have to live the hard life that he lives now. As a side note, this is still very relevant and present in modern day, as maybe people are not working in cotton fields any longer but they are working as warehouse employees and cashiers who are barely able to feed their kids and they just want to get an education. The main idea of the poem is that education is an extremely important tool and that you need to take it seriously.


Lastly In The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice, Kolvenbach speaks about what it means to live for the service of faith and promotion of justice but also about things you can do to promote these ideas and become a whole person. He suggests living in the gritty reality of the world to see the injustice in the world and help make it more just. This type of education is not learned only from classes, but from direct experiences which influence the heart and subsequently, also the mind.

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