Love Calls Us to the Things of This World (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Wilbur
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance
The Poem
“Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” is a lyric poem written in blank verse. The title is taken from Saint Augustine and gives theological support to the particular mood of acceptance significant to the poem.
The poem is set in the first awakening of consciousness after sleep in the morning. The time of initial dislocation between sleep and waking is often portrayed negatively in literature; at first waking, one can often feel alien to the world, even to one’s own life. Indeed, even in this poem it is a “cry of pulleys” from clothes being hung...
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