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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... physical and spiritual worlds. On the one hand there seems a contrast or conflict between them: “I am carryed towards the West/This day, when my Soules forme bends toward the East”; yet we see that the same rules apply to souls as to ...
... physical structure of a church or of a Hebrew temple has also been suggested as an analogue to the form of The Temple,” yet the order of Herbert's poems seems to contradict what we know about these places of worship. “The Church Porch ...
... physical posture as a reflection of his spiritual state and as an inducement to the same spiritual state in others. But he also sees the posture of prayer with its physical submission as a preparation for and means to his own spiritual ...
... physical motion or an imperative to it and an image of man passively subject to that motion: “Which do consigne and send them unto death” (line 6); “Successive nights, like rolling waves, / Convey them quickly, who are bound for death ...
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