When you think of a priest, you don't think of someone who is suffering, or who in their vocation is unhappy with something. Priests for the most part are happy with what they do, helping others get through things they don't like, suffering they have, and help them to deal with the hardships that come along with life. Celibate Dazzled: by Larry Janowski, gives an insight to some of the suffering and hardship the celibate priest have. In this paper, I will be looking at four poems from Celibate Dazzled, and giving my reaction, and how I understand them. The four poems I will be looking at are; "What Celibacy Is", "On Showing off Your Seventeen-year-old Son to Your Best Friend Who Has No Kids", "Celibate Dazzled", and "Enough". (1,3,16,18).
The First poem I read was "What Celibacy Is". My impression of this poem was that not all the priests, or others called to Celibacy (in the future I will only refer to priests to save time), are happy about taking a vow of celibacy. In the first stanza, and moving into the second, he is talking about how this could be too much for him, but "pay it anyway." The poem goes on to say that "some heroic souls, though few, accept such terms without complaint". He's saying some are so full of God that it doesn't matter what they do, or what they forsake, they will always be happy, but for him it will be hard to do.
The second poem I read was "On Showing off Your Seventeen-year-old Son to Your Best Friend Who Has No Kids". This poem, again, I got the impression that he was not happy with his decision, and that he is suffering everyday because of it. The poem starts off with "I watch your son and you and hate you both- such strong words from a priest, yet they show his true feelings on how much he is suffering, and living it everyday. The poem later goes on to talk about cherishing the moments he has seen, because he doesn't have to see the hard stuff, and the fights, " I am not there when he maddens you", almost as if he doesn't envy that part of being a dad.
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