I Walk’d the Other Day, Henry Vaughan, Analysis & Summary

This study guide provides a detailed analysis of the poem "I Walk'd the Other Day" by Henry Vaughan. It includes a stanza-wise summary, an exploration of major themes, critical analysis of the poem, examination of symbols, language, structure, and sound devices used, as well as an exploration of the attitudes and feelings portrayed in the poem. Additionally, it suggests similar poems and how they relate to Vaughan's work. The Poem I walk’d the other day, to spend my hour, Into a field, Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield A gallant flow’r; But winter now had ruffled all the bow’r And curious store I knew there heretofore. Yet I, whose search lov’d not to peep and peer I’ th’ face of things, Thought with my self, there might be other springs Besides this here, Which, like cold friends, sees us but once a year; And so the flow’r Might have some other bow’r. Then taking up what I could nearest spy, …