The Signature of All Things (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth Rexroth
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, Spiritual life or spirituality, Forests or forestry, Reading, Mysticism, Trees, Life and death, Reincarnation, Summer, Night
The Poem
“The Signature of All Things” is divided into three parts: The first comprises thirty-two-lines; the second, twenty-five; and the third, twenty. The title of the poem derives from a book by the seventeenth century mystic Jakob Böhme, the reading of which initiates the poem. Written in the first person, the poem relates the visionary, intensely spiritual experience of the poet.
True to Böhme’s teaching that the “outward visible world with all its beings is a signature, or figure, of the inward spiritual world,” the poet begins with the image of his...
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