About Haylee Wuensche

Haylee Wuensche is receiving a BFA in Studio Art and a minor in History from Houston Christian University. She has completed the university's honors college program and continues to study art history and its connections to literature and faith.

Petrarch’s Dialogue With the Divine

By |2024-10-31T18:04:49-05:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Love, Petrarch, Poetry|

Petrarch’s Canzoniere is often referred to as merely love poetry, dedicated to the poet's lost love, Laura. This is an important observation, but it overlooks other elements of the text such as the themes of forgiveness, repentance, and the connection to the divine. Claiming that the Canzoniere is merely love poetry is not only an underestimation [...]

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T.S. Eliot: Hope Beyond the Waste Land

By |2024-10-16T13:31:13-05:00October 16th, 2024|Categories: Literature, Poetry, St. Augustine, T.S. Eliot|

In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot displays the dark and depraved qualities of humanity. These qualities are especially prevalent in “The Fire Sermon,” where society has fallen victim to sexual immorality and corruption. Due to this subject matter, scholars conclude that Eliot is pessimistic about the future of Western Civilization, but this point of view [...]

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