Reading Augustine’s story of Alypius just before reading Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag raises several rather fruitful questions, two of which we find particularly interesting: first, how have the ethics of witnessing violence changed since the 4th century, and second, how does Alypius’ experience fit in with Sontag’s conception of the three basic viewpoints from which one can relate to violence? Though Alypius recognizes the moral dangers…

Group: Julia Liu, Ann Rayburn, Wren McMillan This week, we have opted to explore the The Life of St. Margaret through three different poetic styles. The first poem, “Untitled” by Julia Liu, utilizes a free verse structure. The next, another untitled piece by Ann Rayburn, is also in free verse, but is intensely inspired by the works of e.e. cummings and makes ample use of formatting elements. The third poem,…

By Kaedy Puckett Some see pain as memory and some see memory as pain Poetry, Art, and Literature, aestheticize the slain. Gruesome torment, captured through portraiture of inflicted sin Where seeing eyes are captivated by bittersweet disdain The moon, the stars, the cosmos hold no candle to the image Of torn and twisted flesh; of cruelty utterly inhumane. Does vivid horror unite the good, or does it please the bad?…