George Herbert’s ‘Doomes-Day’ and Thomas Randolph’s ‘Salting’

Using Religious Poetry of the Seventeenth Century to Start Environmental Conversations in Protestant College Classrooms

“…George Herbert, in his poem “Doomsday,” addresses the apocalypse and collapses the binaries of life/death as well as past/future. 3 James Doelman notes that Herbert uses popular song references to undermine the end times fear one might expect in this poem (2018, p. 195). The apocalypse, suggested by the title and content of the poem, is a hopeful and even cheery affair.…”