summary of the poem lead kindly light
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Lead, Kindly Light provides comfort and reassurance that God leads when we are lost. It's not a surprise that the poem received popularity after Newman wrote it; many can relate to the feeling of renewed hope after calling upon God for strength.
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In the first stanza, Newman calls on the Kindly light, the Holy Spirit – to rescue him from his triple gloom … of homesickness, of apprehension in the face of his mission in the Anglican church, and of his desire to reach his true home, heaven. He expresses his unquestioning dependence on God, to whom he gives his “feet” – his very path forward … he follows without question.
In this second stanza, Newman recalls with a sadness and remorse times from his past, when he had been proud and willful. While lying on his sickbed, Newman had much time to think about his earlier ways, and with the true possibility of death in his mind, it is small wonder that he’d be given to sorrow over past sins.
In this final, glorious and triumphant last stanza, we see Newman’s faith and hope vanquish the gloom. He throws his cares to Christ, remembering that ever has he been blest. And though he knows there might still be rough spots in the path ahead, crags and torrents … nevertheless, the night is gone. And the heart’s thrill of hope in the reality of the heavenly homecoming, at once gives meaning to all the homecomings – and the angel smiles serve to represent as well, both earthly and heavenly consolation – which Newman recalls with renewed happiness, and though he lost sight for a time, his eyes are again, surely and firmly, gazing upward.
Within a week of his return to England together with John Keble and a few other friends he was led by God’s light to begin the Oxford Movement, a renewal movement in the Anglican Church. God led him through one difficulty after another until at last he was led to the Roman Catholic Church.