George Hervert's Poem: Love(3)
The poem, Love(3), by George Herbert is a dialogue between Love personified and a sinner who feels unworthy to receive forgiveness of sin and unconditional love. Love speaks in a welcoming tone and exhorts the sinner to receive an invitation for dinner. The sinner is reluctant, lamenting past guilt and present sin, but through Love’s gentle persuasion finally accepts the invitation and eats. The poem is a beautiful, intimate demonstration of the unconditional love bestowed upon a sincere penitent sinner.
The narrator of the poem is the sinner who is either Herbert himself or his persona who speaks in the first person narrative. Herbert uses allegory by transforming the characteristic of love into a person. Over the course of the poem, Love becomes equated with a Divine Creator and the Lord Jesus.
Herbert’s poem, Love(3), is constructed of eighteen lines. The lines are divided into three stanzas of six lines. Within each stanza the lines oscillate back and forth between a longer line which is ten syllables and a shorter line which is six syllables. The shorter line of six syllables is indented underneath the longer line which allows the last word of each line to be even with the proceeding line. This feature allows the reader to clearly see the rhyming scheme, which is ababcc.
The poem opens with “Love” presenting the invitation to dine. The sinner’s soul immediately recoils at the proposition due to his awareness of his guilt “of dust and sin.” The sinner confesses his sin, yet Love is “quick-eyed” which means Love observes the sinner “grow slack” and senses his reluctance to receive the invitation as a free gift. Love proceeds...
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...hat is starving for love. True love is not based on good deeds or a sinless life or any other requirements that would denote worthiness. Love is a gift, freely given and entirely unconditional. Herbert captures the reluctance of the human soul to enter into a love relationship with a Holy God due to the awareness of guilt and shame. If God is holy how could He love an unholy being without requiring that it meet a set of standards? Herbert addresses that a sacrifice must be made for sins committed, but that Love, or Christ, has taken the blame. With the sacrifice complete the sinner is now free to accept the gift of grace and enter into the eternal love relationship with God and find satiation for a starving soul. Herbert’s poem beautifully portrays the nature of love and a gracious God that desperately longs to come into a relationship with unworthy sinners.
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