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C.S Lewis was born on November 29th 1998 and died on November 22nd 1963, a week before his sixty-fifth birthday. Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he was a white, Irish man. He had a mother named Florence Augusta Lewis, a father named Albert James Lewis, a brother named Warren Hamilton Lewis, and of course Clive Staples Lewis himself or better known as C.S Lewis. When Lewis was eight in 1905 , him and his family moved to a place called “Little Tea”, his mother Florence died two years later. Lewis went to University College, Oxford, this college is one of many that he went to, but this college had the biggest impact on him because he then later went on to be awarded with many things such as: First Honor Moderations, First Ingrates, …show more content…

Lewis then went on in his later years to become a professor at Cambridge University, England in 1954. In 1965 he married a woman named Joy Davidman Gresham. She had been through two marriages her first husband died of a heart attack so she turned to prayer and started reading C.S Lewis’ books before marrying him. Joy died about three years before Clive. Lewis had two sons with Joy, Douglas and Davis Gresham. C.S Lewis’ most famous works are The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, and The Space Trilogy. Lewis is best known for his books about Christianity and his sci-fi and fantasy books. Being in the war and all of the other hardships in his life had an impact on his …show more content…

Lewis does this to enhance the theme of the poem whatever it may be. He uses a metaphor when he says “up the future's endless stairs” in Evolutionary Hymn, he also uses imagery when he says this because you can almost envision seeing the stairs going up to the future. He uses personification when he says in the first line of his poem Country of The Blind “Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men” this shows personification because light cannot bathe something or someone. In the two poems that were stated I saw similarities in theme, they both are patriotic and have something to do with America. I think that these themes have something to do with the fact that he was in the war when he was younger. In his poems I found it peculiar that these two poems talked so much about patriotism and how people don’t understand. He emphasizes the fact that people don't understand by saying that they are blind or

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