At one point, his father was a member of parliament as well as a justice of the peace. He grew up in a very affluent household that was close to both the national and local governments. His parents were Richard Herbert and Magdalen Herbert, and he was one of ten children born to the couple. George Herbert was born in Montgomery, Powys, Wales, in April 1593. He asks God that he be able to rise up and into the light. In the text, the speaker describes man’s foolishness in the Garden of Eden and how he doesn’t like being stuck in the darkness. The poem is laid out in the shape of a bird’s wings, a technique that Herbert enjoyed employing. ‘ Easter Wings’is another religious poem in which the speaker discusses the fall of man and his own desire to do better.He chose to keep it close so that when human beings get weary, they turn to God. But, there is one blessing God did not release-rest. These things came to humanity easily, and now their defining features of the species. ‘ The Pulley’describes the story of creation and the moment in which God chose to give humankind knowledge, as well as wisdom and beauty.Eventually, God speaks to him and calms him down. He is living in prison on his own belief and wants to find a way out of it. In it, the priest’s collar is presented as a symbol of restraint. ‘ The Collar’ is an interesting poem that suggests that life as a religious man was not as easy for Herbert as other poems suggest.But, as winter approaches, the speaker, like a flower, withers up and has to work harder to maintain his faith. Spring is a time of year that brings with it great emotional peace and happiness. ‘ The Flower’ focuses on the seasons and how transitions change how the speaker experiences religion and God.The speaker depicts how one moves at a time he’s going to create an altar to God built from his own body. The poem describes the metaphorical process of building an altar out of one’s heart. This poem is one of several that Herbert wrote that depicts an image in the arrangement of the text. ‘ The Altar’ is a devotional poem that depicts the speaker’s desire to make a sacrifice similar to Christ’s.King James I enjoyed his poetry and his piety.George Herbert’s poetry was not appreciated until decades after his death.
After Herbert’s death, a book of proverbs was published in 1640, titled, ‘His Outlandish Proverbs.’.In 1633 he took ill and died of consumption.In 1653, Herbert’s only prose work, ‘A Priest to the Temple,’ was published.Herbert’s first work, ‘Qua auspicatissimum Serenissimi Principis Caroli,’ was published in 1623.
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