조지 허버트 (George Herbert)와 로버트 헤릭 (Robert Herrick) : 영국 국교도의 경건과 세속의 예

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The two Anglican priests seemingly show the contrasting attitudes toward life: Herbert is stoic while Herrick epicurean. For Herbert, religious things such as church and Christian festivals and faith form the key poetic materials; for Herrick, mainly folks tales and pagan festivals, flowers, imagined lovers, fairies and suchlike do. Although the two belong to the same branch of church, Herbert is very religious while Herrick very secular. In Herbert's poetry, the relationship between woman and man is ascetic; in Herrick's poetry, it is seductive. The whole tone of Herbert's poems is argumentative and confessional; that of Herrick's poems seductive and frivolous.
On the other hand, the two writers seem to have many things in common. The first thing they seem to have in common can be found in their views towards ceremony: they, as Anglican church's priests, identify writing poems with making buildings. The second thing is that their poems show the seventeenth century's aestheticism that tries to harmonize differences such as 'cleanly wantonness' and 'discordia concors'. The third one is that some of their poems are transformed into songs. Fourth, their poems are all preoccupied with death and they try to find a way to recover from the death. Their contrasting attitudes to life lead me to the hypothesis that the Anglican church itself has contrasting colours within it, that is, holiness and secularity.