“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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