The Analysis of “The Waterfall” Poem By Henry Vaughan

The versification of Vaughan’s poem is unique and its need to analyze to know what the exactly the poem try to explain. The first section of the poem which if we see related to the waterfall form is the highest section of waterfall while the waterfall fall in down to the earth. And it’s constructed of three rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter, separated by several couplet of iambic dimeter. This section tries to describe if everything which happen in this world is not always right or not always wrong. Sometime the human can stand in the right place and the next day probably they stand in wrong place. The highest section is showing the life phenomenon in this world. The dead in life is not and end of our journey as the creature of god. But, the dead is the starting point in meeting with our lovely god. And we will know what the exactly will happen to us when we are passed away.

Many people think if dead is the end of our journey as the god creature, its not quietly right. Every problem we found there are the solution that has been ruled by god and how to solve the problem is depend on each individual itself. The last sentences of the first section” Rise to a longer course more bright and brave” implicitly shown we will find much better and strong life after got a lot of problem in our life. And we will more brave to face the life without complain and we already to be what we are and we might learn to thanks to god who has been create us as the best human in the world. But, the fact many people tend to forget about god and life as they will life forever in this world. They don’t care about the balance in life, they frustrate if they can’t solve the problem and suicide they think the best way to runaway from the problem. If everybody realizes how lucky us was created by god, the world will be full of happiness. The first section of the poem gives us the lesson to life as the best creatures of the god.   

The second section of the poem including the straight long lines to the end of the poem, which consist of unbroken, unvarying couplets iambic tetrameter. These sections try to explain if before we get the good life, we have to accept everything that god has given to us. This section has something to do with the relationship of human and nature. The straight lines describe when the human found what the real life is after the life in the world. Water is constantly flowing in all direction on the earth and reminds the poet that we will all flow back to the master who has created us, like while we have flowed from him in past. Humankind is mortal and someday every of human life will dead and the only one who immortal and surely that is our god. The second section also shows the waterfall as the compare of human and their destiny. As we found in the poem “Who came-Sure-from a sea of light” this give strengthen to human who has created is from one source that the sea of light. And than “why should frail flesh doubt any more that what God takes he’ll not restore” it’s mean that everything that god want to us, he just get it, we want it or not that is not a problem for god. The human just his playing toys in this world and the toys asked to play as their rules which god was disposed. And god just sits in his kingdom and watches the play of human kind.

The next, the poem describing that the water goes tumbling over the waterfall, the water crashes down violently as if it were destroyed. It is illustrated in the poem that the circle created by the falling water in the brook become invisible when they reach the bank, so does man eventually pass into invisibility, where his mainly freedom is finally located.

And the second sections also illustrate the relationship between the man and the nature. The idea being presented is that man can discover in nature some of the religious mysteries which he knows to exist in his relationship with deity. Or simply people will be able to find the religious meaning when he tries to understand and love the nature itself. The poem itself has a complex representation; they are the man’s ultimate religious destiny and the man’s ability to learn about the destiny through the excellent examination which they can get from the physical form of world.

Conclusion

This poem is really help us in finding what the exactly we want in this life, the narrator help us with putting the real good and simple word to make easier when we are going to analyze the poem. And using new criticism approach is tending to the meaning of the text of the poem itself. The New Critical approach insists on the value of  textual and rejects extra-textual sources. The New Critics also rejected the idea that the work of a critic or analyst is to determine what author's intended meaning. The New Critics prized tended to favor works that lend themselves to multiple interpretations. So the researcher probably will have different interpretation as their ability and knowledge of the imagination uses. So, this poem can be analyzed using the new criticism approach.

by: Iancyber