The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and TraherneUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014/10/17 - 200 ページ The poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne represents "an attempt to shape their lives and verse around the fact of divine presence and influence," writes Sharon Seelig. The relationship between belief and expression in these three metaphysical poets is the subject of this deeply perceptive study. Each of these poets held to some extent the notion of dual reality, of the world as indicative of a higher reality, but their responses to this tradition vary greatly—from the ongoing struggle between God and the poet of The Temple, which finally transforms the materials of everyday life and worship; to the more difficult unity of Silex Scintillans, with its tension between illumination and resignation; to the ecstatic proclamations of Thomas Traherne, whose sense of divine reality at first seems so strong as to destroy the characteristic metaphysical tension between this world and the next. Seelig's study proceeds from individual poems to the whole work, exploring the relation of cosmology and religious experience to poetic form. |
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... and spiritual experienced by the poet, as by all men, is reconciled in Christ. This recognition underlies the further turnings and questionings of the poem, throughout which the tension persists, but also the will INTRODUCTION 3.
... Christ, and although poems for other feasts of the church follow in their proper order (“Whitsunday,” p. 59 ... Christ, the essential act of sacrifice on which The Temple focuses our attention.” Another intriguing possibility is the ...
... Christ's; that the noun of the title is not abstract but specific and proper. Unlike the poet who gives something of his own, Christ gives himself. This unexpected shift in persona and perspective paves the way for further revelations ...
... Christ himself in atonement for man's sin; and it applied to the offering of prayers, thanksgiving, penitence, or devotion to God. Thus Herbert's words immediately suggest that the reading of poetry—in itself a pleasure—may also be an ...
... Christ must have a very different meaning from “sweet” as applied to the sweet youth of “The Church Porch.” The bitter irony of such a contrast is the means by which Herbert directs us to new apprehensions of truth, to a vision of a ...