Rabu, 16 Januari 2013

CRITICAL ANALYZE THE POETRY OF GEORGE HERBERTVIRTUE


“Virtue”
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright!
The bridal of the earth and sky-
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;
For thou must die.
Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,
Thy root is ever and its grave,
And thou must die.
Sweet spring, full of sweet day and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie,
My music shows ye have your closes,
And all must die.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But thought the whole word turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.

   Virtue By George Herbert


 
Interpretation Of The Title
Base on that title; namely “virtue”, so in my mind appearance the human attitude like friendly,  care each other, beloved by Allah and a lot of people around us.

Theme
·         Virtue is never die
Because that poet is trying to convey kindness, “and all must die like day of the first stanza, the rose of the second stanza, and the spring of the third,only a sweet and virtuous soul that can be permanent”.

Interpretation Of  The Poem
ü  First stanza
First stanza of the poem tell us about weather is not permanent; although, the day that very cool, bright, sweet but if night come the beautiful of day will lost soon because they not constant.
ü  Second stanza
Rose is the symbol of  breathy  and root is symbol of  power. The second stanza tell us about the breathy and the power but finally it will lost and die.
ü  Third stanza
Third stanza tell us about lying or false. There are sweet spring day, sweet day, and beautiful rose that wrap in beautiful box but actually they are lie to be beautiful and life forever. And they also die.
ü  Fourth stanza
The fourth stanza tell us about something that never die namely virtue. Although our body in the grave but our soul still remember from many people if we always do something right to other people or to other Allah’s creature.

Summary Of  The Poem
“Man pass a way leave his or her name”, that aphorism is suitable for George Herbert’s creation. Because in his poem tell us about or content about how beautiful the weather in the day, how strong and brave someone but that all will die instead.
There are spring day, beautiful day, beautiful rose all of them wrap in a beautiful box but they are lie to be beautiful forever and actually they also die but just only a sweet and virtuous soul that will be permanent although body separated with soul.

Atmosphere
·          Sadness
The poet used descriptions of sadness with cry, die.

 Point of view
·         Nature
Why? Because that poet view from nature,from the beginning until the ending.

Figurative Language
a.       Allegory is the comparison a situation  with several figure of speech.
·       The bridal of the earth and sky-
The dew shall weep thy fall- to night
b.      Simile is direct comparison between thing which are not particularly similar in their essence.
·       Like seasoned timber, never gives;
c.       Personification is figure of speech which describes an object by giving human characteristics to inanimate objects as if alive.
·         But though the whole world turn to cool,
·         A box where sweets compact lie,
·         The dew shall weep thy fall- tonight,
·         Like seasoned timber,never giver,

   Diction
·           Connotation One of the various implications or association that a word carries. mostly word have many connotation.
- Only a sweet and virtuous soul = The people who has good character.
- Thy root is ever in its grave = that is the symbol of rose that not permanent.
- Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave = the emotion
- The dew shall weep thy fall to- night = cry

The value
·      Moral value
That poem convey about human behavior or character namely virtue.

The message
The message that can we get in that poetry are, the people will always remember about our kindness although we passed away, and as we know wickedness, anger, etc will defeated by kindness. Because wickedness and kindness can not united. The kindness or virtue is permanent and the wickedness, anger is impermanent. So keep our relation with God, nature, and human. And remember that all of kindness come from Allah.        

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