‘ Easter Wings’ by George Herbert is a two stanza shape poem, meaning that each stanza is organized so that the lines form a particular shape. He asks God throughout this poem to allow him to rise out of the darkness and into the light.
It is because of this person’s choice that the speaker suffers today. He describes the man’s foolishness and how he threw away everything good that God gave him. The poem begins with the speaker addressing the creation of humankind, specifically Adam. ‘Easter Wings’ by George Herbert is a fairly simple, yet quite moving, Christian poem that addresses the fall of man and the speaker’s desire to rise.īy using the shape of a bird’s wings, the poet is able to emphasize the nature of the fall and rise the speaker is experiencing.
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