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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... Lord.” Our reading of these poems is made easier by the shift of mood or attitude with which they conclude, allowing us to take the final position as our point of orientation. But often the mood shifts from one poem to another as well ...
... Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him maySt rise: That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more, just. (lines 1-6) But a few pages ...
... Lord! how should my rymes Gladly engrave thy love in steel, If what my soul doth feel sometimes, My soul might ever feel! (lines 1–4) In this instance even the persona's image of the ideal is shockingly rigid—love engraved in steel ...
... Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store”), reflecting God's providence, to six syllables (“That I became / Most thinne”), imitating the paltry means of man alone. The lines build syllable by syllable as the soul's force is ...
... Lord is good” (Ps. 34:8). He would make us feel along our pulses the paradoxes of theology, the dual reality at the heart of the universe. Like “The Agonie,” a good many of the poems of complaint of The Temple move from a focus on man's ...