NB+George+Herbert

Peace, by George Herbert, is a very interesting poem. He uses peace in a way that I have never seen it before. Usually when thinking of peace, its used to describe something such as world peace, or "it was so peaceful". Although Herbert uses peace like it is a human being or a living object. An example is when he says, ""Surely," thought I, This is the lace of Peace's coat." He used an apastrophe meaning that the coat belonged to peace. What Herbert's higher purpose for this poem is to show that poetry doesn't have many rules. You can shape words however it needs to be, even if it is unusual. In formal writing there are restrictions and words have to used as they are defined in the dictionary, but in poetry all those definitions are nothing and words can be used in ways that are endless. That is what I think Herbert was trying to express in his poem Peace.