write the critical appreciation of the poem "the world"by henry vaughan
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The World by Henry Vaughan
Summary of The World
‘The World’ by Henry Vaughan speaks on the ways men and women risk their place in eternity by valuing earthly pleasures over God.
The poem begins with the speaker describing how one night he saw “Eternity.” It appeared as a bright ring of light. He knew that all of time and space was within it. After looking upon it and realizing that God is the only thing worth valuing, he speaks on the various pursuits of humankind.
The speaker tells of those who pine for earthly happiness and forget to nurse their spiritual health. He also depicts the terrible deeds of a “darksome statesman” who cares for no one but himself. This person, as well as many others like him, feeds off the suffering of others.
Vaughan concludes the poem by describing the gluttonous among humankind and their preoccupation with food and wine. In the last lines, he attempts to persuade the reader to forget about the pleasures that can be gained on earth and focus on making it into Heaven.
In the first stanza of ‘The World’, the speaker begins by describing one special night in his life. He saw “Eternity.” He recalls it as being “a great ring of pure and endless light.” The sight changes his perspective on the world. He found in it a calmness and brightness that he’d never witnessed on earth and knew then that nothing man could do or create would compare.
As one would expect, encompassed within “Eternity” is all of the time. There are the short moments and the long, all controlled by the “spheres,” or the heavenly bodies which were thought to influence time and space. One of the interesting features of this section is that rather than being overwhelmed by the size of the universe or Eternity, the speaker is struck by how compressed everything becomes. Everything he knows and everything there ever has been or will be is within the light. The earth is hurled along within Eternity just like everything else. This decreases the importance of every day.
This final message is tied to another, that no matter what one does in their life to improve their happiness, it will be nothing compared to what God can give. At this moment, before they embrace God, they live “in grots and caves.” The unfaithful turn away from the light because it could show them a different path than the one they are on.
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