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George Herbert

Death is not Dull

Paradox Approach/Belief in a paradox

  • Unlike many he views death more as climax instead a subject of darkness
  • Has a peculiar approach to how death refers to not just the journey to afterlife but a gateway to another life along with emotional death and events that cause death literally and not literally eg. separation from his wife,
  • Strong belief in this is shown through this quote “death merely transitions the soul from a physical state to a spiritual one”
  • He views that paradox is important to mankind as in it he sees the resolutions needed to solve the problems in our world
  • Strong belief in that we live in a world full of evilness and its outside the norm to believe in the goodness and holiness of god
  • uses paradoxical statements in many of his poems to encourage the readers to step outside that perceived norm of the evil in our world and to rethink how they have been raised and manufactured to believe

Love is both Spiritual and Physical

  • Explores this theme in his poems and in his belief loving someone is as much a religious experience as a physical one
  • This is explored and used throughout his poetry to form the relationships as he equals the physical and spiritual elements to love

Religion

  • Religion was a strong belief that helped shaped many of the poems and Godly Terminology was often reference throughout his poetry
  • Devoted Anglican
  • He was very much into the state of being holy
  • Though his poems contained both sacred and secular elements which bought questing to the viewer's interpretation of his strong godly beliefs
  • Contradicted

Core Beliefs that Shaped his work

Defining Qualities of His Work

  • His Poems have deep religious devotion, linguistic precision, metrical agility, and ingenious use of conceit.
  • More private, subjective and modest and generally have a conversational tone.
  • Contain a sense of naturalness and simplicity
  • The arrangement of the lines of his poetic works always create an appearance of order
  • Religious writer
  • Show a sense of familiarity with the God and he sees God in daily life through ways humble and high as observed through his works

Literary Life

Early Life

  • Wrote poetry as early as 1610 and declared that his poetic intentions were to glorify God.
  • Poetry English, Latin and Greek.
  • In 1633 all his English work was published in a single volume called The Temple.
  • 170 poems in The Temple.
  • Known as one of the best poets of the seventh century and as one of the best English lyric poets of all time.

  • Born in 1593, the fifth son of a very wealthy and powerful family; his father was a Member of Parliament, mother was a patron and was friends with many popular writers and artists at the time.
  • family had a strong friendship with John Donne.
  • Attended Westminster School in London
  • Offered a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated with a Bachelor's and master's degree in 1616 at the age of 23.

Professional Life

  • Was a Member of Parliament, representing Montgomery.
  • Herbert changed his pathway and he turned away from the political future that he had been pursuing and shifted towards a future in the church.
  • o He was ordained deacon in 1624 and in 1629 he was appointed rector of the small rural village near Salisbury in Wiltshire, about 75 miles south west of London.
  • o Lived at the village where he preached and wrote poetry and he also helped to rebuild the Bemerton church.
  • o In 1630 he was ordained priest.

By Sara, Lauryn,Anikia & Arushi

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