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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... doth studie thy renown: Thou turnest th' edge of all things on me still, Taking me up to throw me down. ("The Crosse,” lines 1–6, 19–22) In all of these flawed voices there is of course something of the poet. Herbert had a genuine if ...
... doth jest Away thy blessings, and extreamly flout thee, Thy clothes being fast, but thy soul loose about thee. (stanza 69) Yet another strain, muffled, even disguised, runs through these verses. Herbert begins the poem with an ...
... doth subsist” (line 227). Such shifting use of language is sometimes unobtrusive, but pervasive, in The Temple. Because Herbert the poet provides us with words that prove more meaningful than the persona has yet suspected, the ...
... doth cut. Wherefore each part Of my hard heart Meets in this frame, To praise thy Name. (lines 5–12) The first four lines of this passage, though choppy and awkward, are metrically absolutely regular, as Herbert describes God's power to ...
... doth, first, as being truly touched and amazed with the Majesty of God, before whom he then presents himself, yet not as himself alone, but as presenting with himself the whole Congregation, whose sins he then beares, and brings with ...