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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... speaker of an amazingly simple yet essential truth: “Perhaps great places and thy praise/Do not so well agree” (“Submission,” lines 15–16). Such discoveries may make us smile at as well as judge the persona. Among the most amusing of ...
... speaker, whether saint or sinner, penitent or man of worldly wisdom. Whether we side with him or draw back in disapproval, our spiritual stature is being measured. Herbert offers us clues—in the structure of a poem, in the exaggeration ...
... speaker in childlike fashion is taken by the hand. In stanza 2 the lines already move somewhat more confidently as he addresses his lute. Just as the heart moves in imitation of Christ, so the inanimate object of wood and strings moves ...
... speaker's words are: “a verse or two is all the praise, /That I can raise.” Whether the more optimistic lines that follow may be true, such rhythms also lead us to doubt. The persona describes simple and barren activities in declarative ...
... speaker presents it, is divided into questions and answers. This method allows but two possibilities in any given case, and the bold rhetorical format seems to make the answers obvious enough. Yet the soul subjected to this barrage of ...