notes- George Herbert

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Notes on George Herbert:
-Being the 5th son in a noble family means you get no inheritance
1st son- heir
2nd son- military
3rd son and there after- clergy
-Herbert could've done nothing but he chose to go into clergy because he felt a calling from it so he went back to school and got his degrees. He ended up being a huge help.
-he grew up with his mother who loved Donne's work
-greatest dissapointment was when he died. Ironic that, on his death bed, he said to burn his work and not to publish it unless it was going to be of some help to others. They saw the merit and published it.
-Direct inheritence of Donne's traditions--->cavalier poet
-memorial verses: occasional poems (it was part of the culture)

Easter-Wings
-Concrete poem: shapes or forms of an object (content and form)
-formed as angel wings. When the lines get smaller it is decaying and when they expand it is coming back to life and rejoining with God.
-people weren't viewed as being nice, the Puritans view was that we were born corrupt and not capable of doing good. They did believe that we were capable of getting better and growing through working, learning, and struggling.The Romantics believed the flip side; that we were born perfect and innocent and that the world corrupted us.
-The first set of angel wings is referring to all of humanity and the second set is focused on himself, specifically.
-In the first line the word 'store' means stuff that makes us what we are
-Laz pointed out that when a poem has the word 'fall' in it, it is a religious poem and it usually means something. ex: Lucifer fell from heaven and was sent to hell. Adam and Eve were a fall from grace.
- "For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me."
-These last two lines are saying, 'if I put my wing on God and take him in, because can't do it on your own, and strife will make me fly high.'

Few things on The Collar.
-three things go along with the idea of 'the collar', we came up with two...try to find the third (we have talked about it before)
1) priests wear collars
2) a yoke goes around animals necks (ox or horse) and connects to what they are carrying


Tanya