Having collapsed the controlling metaphor (God/Landlord), Herbert moves on in quatrain three to collapse the secondary metaphor (Herbert/ tenant). At first the tenant is an everyman; when he is told the Landlord has gone to earth, he reasons (as would any tenant, or any Christian) that this Landlord will come to earth as a royal personage. However, when he extends his search from cities and courts to "theatres, gardens, parks," he ceases to be an everyman and becomes Herbert himself--a very concrete, autobiographical Herbert, the young, untested, man-about-town Herbert whose "birth and spirit," Affliction (1) tells us "rather took / The way that takes the town" (37-8). Both terms of Herbert's parable, we see, are fused, but in opposite directions. The linguistic construct, tenant, is rendered more concrete, more physical, more material by being fused with its signified (Herbert), while the controlling signifier (Landlord) is rendered more abstract, more spiritual, more transcendent by its fusion with its signified (God). The result is a tension, an inner conflict which exists on three levels, each of which is resolved by a fusion of signified and signifier.
On the metaphysical level (theology), the problem is how to mediate between the low estate of fallen man and the exalted glory of the irreproachable God; the solution is the Incarnation. On the linguistic level (semiotics), the problem is how to construct signifiers that will allow for a meaningful exchange between the material realm (Herbert) and the spiritual realm (God); the answer is to incarnate or enshrine these signifieds in signifiers that possess their own integrity (tenant and Landlord are more than mere shadows or emanations; they are tangible presences) while retaining the fullness of the nature of the signified (neither God's glory nor Herbert's individuality is lost in this linguistic incarnation). On the aesthetic level (poetry), the problem is how to construct a poetics that will allow for transcendental ideas to be expressed in material words (icons); the solution is contained in the very nature of poetry itself. For poetry, a language that is built on metaphor and that constructs its metaphors in a far more "slippery" fashion than does prose (a slipperiness that is not deconstructive but redemptive in its promotion of interchange between signifier and signified) is that middle ground where concrete and abstract, physical and spiritual meet. Herbert's poem is a meeting ground for theological statement and personal testimony, God and man, signified and signifier. It bridges man's yearnings with God's provision (unlike the tenant's of Isaiah's and Jesus' Parables of the Vineyard, the tenant in Herbert's poem seeks after God) and asserts the redemptive power that is released when Logos and Praxis meet (the tenant's word--his suit--is actualized by his bold act--to seek out the Landlord; the Landlord's word--"Your suit is granted" --is effected by his supreme act--his death).
Herbert's poem performs a triple incarnation--an aesthetic incar-nation that expresses a metaphysical incarnation through the mediation of a linguistic incarnation. And it does so without destroying the mystery of the process. We are awed aesthetically by the poem as we are awed metaphysically by the Incarnation; the result is humility, thankfulness, and an awareness that though language (like mankind) is fallen, it can be redeemed and used as a fit receptacle for Meaning.
มียุบอุปมาควบคุม (พระเจ้า), เฮอร์เบิร์ตไปใน quatrain สามยุบอุปมารอง (เฮอร์เบิร์ต / ผู้เช่า) ตอนแรก ผู้เช่าเป็นการ everyman เมื่อเขาจะบอกเจ้าของได้ไปโลก เขาเหตุผล (ตามต้องการผู้เช่าใด ๆ หรือคริสเตียนใด ๆ) ว่า เจ้านี้จะมาที่โลกเป็นบุคคลสำคัญรอยัล อย่างไรก็ตาม เมื่อเขาขยายการค้นหาของเขาจากเมืองและศาล "โรงภาพยนตร์ สวน สวน" เขามี everyman มีอีกต่อไป และจะ เฮอร์เบิร์ตเอง - เฮอร์เบิร์ตคอนกรีตมาก อัตชีวประวัติ เฮอร์เบิร์ตหนุ่ม ทดสอบ ผู้ชายเกี่ยวกับการเมืองที่มี "เกิดและวิญญาณ บีบคั้น (1) บอกเราเอา / วิธีการที่ใช้การเมือง" (37-8) ทั้งสองเงื่อนไขการอุปมาของเฮอร์เบิร์ต เราเห็น กำลังหลอมละลาย แต่ในทิศทางตรงข้ามกัน ภาษาการสร้าง ผู้เช่า แสดงคอนกรีตเพิ่มเติม มากจริง วัสดุเพิ่มเติม โดยการผสมผสานกับของ signified (เฮอร์เบิร์ต), ในขณะที่ควบคุม signifier (เจ้าของ) แสดงนามธรรมมาก จิตวิญญาณมากขึ้น ซึ่งเพิ่มเติม โดยการฟิวชั่นของ signified (พระเจ้า) ผลที่ได้คือ ความตึงเครียด ความขัดแย้งภายในซึ่งมีอยู่ในสามระดับ ซึ่งแก้ไขได้ โดยการผสมผสานจัดเตรียม และ signifier On the metaphysical level (theology), the problem is how to mediate between the low estate of fallen man and the exalted glory of the irreproachable God; the solution is the Incarnation. On the linguistic level (semiotics), the problem is how to construct signifiers that will allow for a meaningful exchange between the material realm (Herbert) and the spiritual realm (God); the answer is to incarnate or enshrine these signifieds in signifiers that possess their own integrity (tenant and Landlord are more than mere shadows or emanations; they are tangible presences) while retaining the fullness of the nature of the signified (neither God's glory nor Herbert's individuality is lost in this linguistic incarnation). On the aesthetic level (poetry), the problem is how to construct a poetics that will allow for transcendental ideas to be expressed in material words (icons); the solution is contained in the very nature of poetry itself. For poetry, a language that is built on metaphor and that constructs its metaphors in a far more "slippery" fashion than does prose (a slipperiness that is not deconstructive but redemptive in its promotion of interchange between signifier and signified) is that middle ground where concrete and abstract, physical and spiritual meet. Herbert's poem is a meeting ground for theological statement and personal testimony, God and man, signified and signifier. It bridges man's yearnings with God's provision (unlike the tenant's of Isaiah's and Jesus' Parables of the Vineyard, the tenant in Herbert's poem seeks after God) and asserts the redemptive power that is released when Logos and Praxis meet (the tenant's word--his suit--is actualized by his bold act--to seek out the Landlord; the Landlord's word--"Your suit is granted" --is effected by his supreme act--his death). Herbert's poem performs a triple incarnation--an aesthetic incar-nation that expresses a metaphysical incarnation through the mediation of a linguistic incarnation. And it does so without destroying the mystery of the process. We are awed aesthetically by the poem as we are awed metaphysically by the Incarnation; the result is humility, thankfulness, and an awareness that though language (like mankind) is fallen, it can be redeemed and used as a fit receptacle for Meaning.
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