Research Paper on:
Richard Wilbur's Poem 'Love Calls Us to the Things of This World'

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Richard Wilburs "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" is a poem relating the ties  we have to our physical world which allow us to resist traveling to the spiritual world. The title itself is a recollection of St. Augustines "Confessions" in which a  struggle occurs between the objective and the conceptual world and only love can bring us back. Wilbur divides the poem in reflection of this contrast between the spiritual and  the earthly as well. The first half of the poem is a rendition of the sights and experiences the soul has been privy to in its brief escape from  the bounds of the earth and the second half is devoted to the abrupt return to the limits of gravity. This physical allocation of words into two distinctive parts  is a in itself a means of contrasting the spiritual desires of the soul with the earthly demands placed on the body. In  the first lines of his poem Wilbur awakes the sleeping body with the "dry of pulleys" (line 1), pulleys rigged to pull the soul from the confines of the earth  and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer confined to the physical aspects of life as it has known it  but is instead momentarily suspended "bodiless" (line 3), stripped of all that is used to and astounded at the pure simplicity of its existence. Instead of the furnishings of  the earthly world it has left it perceives around it the forms of angels. Still spinning from the radical changes it has experienced the soul searches to find a