Affliction (I) (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Herbert
- First Published: 1633
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Religion, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Seventeenth century, Good and evil, Faith, Clergy, Jesus Christ, Priests, Religious life
The Poem
“Affliction” (I) is a lyric poem of eleven six-line stanzas. The rhyme scheme is ababcc. Lines 1, 3, 5, and 6 are generally iambic pentameter, with lines 2 and 4 using iambic trimeter. The poem is part of a collection entitled The Temple. George Herbert, a priest in a country parsonage, is said to have given the manuscript to a friend as he (Herbert) lay near death. The message accompanying the manuscript called the work “a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have past betwixt God and my Soul, before I could subject mine to the will of...
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