Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics

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Explore the Depths of a Much Darker World in C.S. Lewis’ Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics



Before C.S. Lewis became one of the most prolific, skilled and well-recognized Christian authors of the 20th century, he delved into a number of diverse concepts, his writings ranging from every types of prose and poems you can imagine. His very first book, however, was a book of poetry written at just 20 years of age, right after he returned from the Great War.

Distraught by the horrors he had witnessed, and – according to his own words – “very angry with God for not existing,” Lewis wrote Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics as a series of 40 poems in which he expresses the lesser known atheistic views he held years before he became a devout Christian.

Spirits in Bondage came in 1919 as a natural reaction to the terrors faced by soldiers during WWI. Many other authors who fought for their respective countries have turned to poetry as a last resort for expressing their feelings about God, the world and the grim, but true possibility that man could inflict such a degree of pain on his own peers

Lewis was deeply dismayed by the horrors of the war, and didn’t fail to recount and express his consternation, grief and anger in many of the poems included in this series.The first 21 poems are dominated by Lewis’ fierce atheist demeanor, showed through lyrical depictions of great artistic pain and beauty. The second part of the series explores the possibility of a spiritual reality through the Occult.Death in Battle is quite possibly the most well-known and powerful poem of the series, appearing in the finale to bring a colorful, symbolic and fantasy-driven conclusion to Lewis’ search for a deeper meaning.


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