Essay on Pattern, Language, and Shape of Easter Wings -- Easter Wings

Pattern, Language, and Shape of easter wing George Herbert, the seventeenth century poet and author, lived and wrote at the dawn of an age of reason, when the side of meat people were students of both the sciences, such as chemistry and physics, and of religion. This was a quantify when Clergymen were authorities on all matters, bishops designed flying boats, lawyers knew the fine points of theology, and physicians wrote neat lyrics and impassioned prose (Witherspoon 298). In such a time, a literary written report would quickly be forgotten if it could not inspire interest. Thus it is, perhaps, that Herbert wrote well-nigh of his most strongly religious poems, such as Easter fly and The Altar, with such an eye-catching and unique style of construction. In Easter move, Herbert uses a highly uncommon form, both in appearance and mechanics, to draw assist to a candid and otherwise familiar religious subject. The very pattern, language, and manufacture all serve to emphasis t he common content of the poem. Easter Wings is, in essence, a poem in the style of simple confessional request it first admits the faults of man, and then exhorts God to allow the confessor redemption and the chance to catch uplifted again. The pattern Herbert uses, and repeats in each stanza, reflects this progression of the prayer. Each stanza is separate into two parts of equal length, one for the admission, the next for the exhortation. For each of the lines, as the plight of man is described, the length of that line is decreased, until the turning of the stanza, which comes at the midpoint of the pattern. Then, as the poem extols the uplifting power of God and the effects of connection with Him, the lines increase in length again, returning to their i... ...ords. The content of the poem is held in its very shape. In order to make interesting a simple devotional poem on a common theme, George Herbert successfully apply many creative and innovative devices in Easter Wings i n such a way that the form of the poem amplifies its content. Through instant and representative patterning, high and lyrical language, and a most uncommon moldable of each verse, he managed to create a poem which not tho stood out in the transitional seventeenth century, but which also trunk wholly notable and instantly intriguing even today. Moreover, the strengths of Herberts Easter Wings will most probably keep the poem eye-catching outlying(prenominal) into the future, whether its content is popular at the time or not. Works Cited black lovage Witherspoon, ed. College Survey of English Literature. New York Harcourt, Brace & World, 1951