The Pulley
The Pulley (Herbert)
“Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness;
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.”
These are the concluding lines from the poem entitled The Pulley written by George Herbert. Herbert was a major poet of the school of Donne. Here, he refers to the blessings of God to man.
God created man in His own image. Man was the masterpiece of God’s creation. He showered all His blessings on man except rest. He felt that if man got the gem of this gift, he would never care for his creator. He would then take all his gifts as merely natural & ignore God altogether. God could not afford to cut off all his connection with his best creation Man. Hence, God withheld rest with a purpose. In the absence of mental peace man would be sick of his life. In his inability to find peace anywhere, man would think of God and ultimately throw himself on the God’s bossom to seek solace and consolation.
These lines are remarkable because they give evidence to the highly devotional mind of Herbert. The language of Herbert, here, is homely and familiar.
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