They Are All Gone into the World of Light! (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Vaughan
- First Published: 1650
- Type of Work: Elegy
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: God, Death or dying, Faith, Bereavement or grief, Afterlife, Birds, Meditation, Light
The Poem
“They Are All Gone into the World of Light!” (the poem is known by its first line), consisting of ten rhymed (abab) stanzas, is at once a lyrical expression of faith and an elegy for friends who have passed away. A meditation on death, it juxtaposes the world of light that follows death with the world of darkness that is the fate of the living. It culminates with a two-stanza prayer in which the speaker requests that God renew the fallen world and either give him spiritual insight here or take him to heaven, where there are no impediments to vision.
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