On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Crashaw
- First Published: 1646
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Religion, God, Pain, Christianity, Blood, Sacrifice, Wounds or injuries, Worship, Feet, Eye
The Poem
“On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord” is a twenty-line poem divided into five stanzas of four lines each. The meter is predominantly iambic tetrameter, and the rhyme scheme is abab. Richard Crashaw’s title suggests that the narrator is viewing a painting or a sculpture depicting Christ either on the cross or at the moment when his body has been lowered from the cross, a standard subject of Renaissance artists. Such images were often placed in alcoves or recesses in churches as objects for meditation; it is such a meditative process that the poem...
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