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Compare and contrast the versification, and its effects in Henry Vaughan’s poem, ‘They Are All Gone into the World of Light!’ and Richard Wilbur’s ‘Advice to a Prophet’.£40.49
Compare and contrast the versification, and its effects in Henry Vaughan’s poem, ‘They Are All Gone into the World of Light!’ and Richard Wilbur’s ‘Advice to a Prophet’.
For the purpose of this essay I will compare and contrast the metre, structure, form, rhythm and language in Vaughan’s ‘They Are All Gone into the World of Light’, and Wilbur’s ‘Advice to a Prophet’, with discussion on how these elements enhance the overall meaning.
They are all Gone into the World of Light By Henry Vaughan
They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit ling’ring here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.
It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast,
Like stars upon some gloomy grove,
Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest,
After the sun’s remove.
I see them walking in an air of glory,
Whose light doth trample on my days:
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere glimmering and decays.
O holy Hope! and high Humility,
High as the heavens above!
These are your walks, and you have show’d them me
To kindle my cold love.
Dear, beauteous Death! the jewel of the just,
Shining nowhere, but in the dark;
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust
Could man outlook that mark!
He that hath found some fledg’d bird’s nest, may know
At first sight, if the bird be flown;
But what fair well or grove he sings in now,
That is to him unknown.
And yet as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul, when man doth sleep:
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes
And into glory peep.
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