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Love (III) (Love bade me welcome) - Coggle Diagram
Love (III) (Love bade me welcome)
Language
Agape Love
'quick-eyed Love'
'Love bade me welcome'
'sweetly questioning if I lacked anything?'
'Who bore the blame?' - allusion to Jesus
sin and Penitance
'yet my soul drew back' - tradition of Petrarchan unworthiness
'Guilty of dust and sin'
'worth to be here' - self- aggrandizement
'I, the unkind, ungrateful?'
'I cannot look on thee' - allusion to Adam and Even being unable to look on God
sexual images
'observing me grow slack from my first entrance in'
'you must sit down and taste my meat'
Structure
regular didactic tone creates reassurance
two voices: Herbert and God
ends in couplets: perfect relationship
Context
New Testament God is approachable
religious references e.g. Holy Communion, Last Supper
Herbert was a priest
Themes and Comparisons
penitance and Sin
relationships with God
sexual intimacy