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The World

In Henry Vaughan's "The World," the religious and didactic elements are really one and the same. The speaker suggests that an afterlife with Christ is available to those who are able to renounce the...

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The World

The poem "The World" by Vaughan employs similes, such as comparing eternity to an endless ring and time to a shadow, highlighting their immaterial nature. It uses contrasting imagery of light and...

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The World

Henry Vaughan's "The World" is a religious poem in that it deals with the uncomfortable fact that so many people value the things of this earth more than they value God. In doing so, they are...

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