Using the definitions of Substance and Accidents on page 24, define your substance. Make sure your definition is concrete and specific. Similarly, define the substance of a Liberal Arts education. How do these two substances interact? In class, we will discuss, George Herbert’s poem “Prayer I”, which attempts to get to the substance of prayer, rather than accidents such as: silent, loud, rhythmic, in church, kneeling, clasped hands, raised hands, etc. Use this, as you attempt to find words and tropes to describe your own substance and that of the Liberal Arts.

Using the definitions of Substance and Accidents on page 24, define your substance. Make sure your definition is concrete and specific. Similarly, define the substance of a Liberal Arts education. How do these two substances interact? In class, we will discuss, George Herbert’s poem “Prayer I”, which attempts to get to the substance of prayer, rather than accidents such as: silent, loud, rhythmic, in church, kneeling, clasped hands, raised hands, etc. Use this, as you attempt to find words and tropes to describe your own substance and that of the Liberal Arts.

PRAYER. (I)

PRAYER the Churches banquet, Angels age,
Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth ;

Engine against th’ Almightie, sinner’s towre,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six daies world-transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear ;

Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,
Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,
Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,
The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,

Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud,
The land of spices, something understood.

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