Vaughan concocts a creative double meaning in the title of his poem, ‘The World’ where it refers to two kinds of worlds – an earthly world for humans and the eternal world for souls. Both these worlds are visualised by the poet, who looks at eternity as a ring of ‘pure and endless light’ – …
‘The Good Morrow’ rests on the idea of the reflections of an overwhelmed lover waking up to the realization that this night with the partner has been a discovery of life itself and this morning brings a spiritual awakening for him. After drawing a blank on their earlier existence, he negates their separate existence as …
The metaphysical poets wrote of eternal life and of the divine connection between the Man and God through metaphysical images.. Herbert articulates this concentration of the metaphysics in his poem, ‘The Pulley’ which uses the speaking voice of God in the process of making Man, illustrating a concrete imagery with the different characteristics of man …