The intent of this poem is very similar to John Dun's something or rather.
Page 1623, discipline, George Herbert.
The images are reversed but it's to the same end.
Dunn is asking for God to break his heart, to ravish him, to take him in this ravishing act of divine love. Now here, Herbert is urging God to woo him gently, for salvation with God. The language is almost diametrically opposed yet the end goal is the same.
Death in Herbert becomes something placid, something benign.
"bones, death etc" Before Christ's death, death itself seemed different. "We didn't look far enough into the future, we just saw the corrupting body in the grave" But now Christ has turned death into life.
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