Image of Larks Flying and Singing In Easter Wings Herbert talks about his sin and suffering He faced pain sadness and shame from a young age So he wants to fly out of his suffering and sin Here Herbert uses the beautiful image of larks flying high in the sky harmoniously and singing He writes O let me rise As larks harmoniously Here Herbert compares his soul to a lark He wants to fly away from his sin and suffering He also wants to sing praises to God Imping Wing The poet also wants to imp and combine his broken wing with God s wing He writes For if I imp my wing on thine Imping means fixing a broken wing by adding feathers from another bird s wing so that it can fly again This is another strong image This image means the poet wants to fix his broken wing using God s strength He wants God s love to rise from his weakness Image of the Collar In The Collar the collar is a powerful image and symbol In this poem the speaker poet is a priest and he feels the weight of his religious duties Here the collar is the priest s white collar It can also mean a dog s collar which is the symbol of being controlled So the image of the collar gives us the central idea of the poem the speaker is fully controlled and restricted by his religious faith and he is having spiritual conflict Hitting the Table The poem starts with an image of hitting the table I struck the board and cried No more I will abroad This image shows anger The speaker is angry and tired of his unrewarding religious duties He is banging the table shouting that he will leave religion Wine and Corn The speaker remembers a time when he felt joyful He says there was wine and corn in his life He says Sure there was wine Before my sighs did dry it there was corn Before my tears did drown it Here wine and corn are images of happiness and blessings But now they are lost because of his religious duties doubts and guilt Rope of Sands and Cage Herbert wonderfully expresses his feelings of doubt and of being trapped with the images of rope of sands and cage He says Forsake thy cage Thy rope of sands Which petty thoughts have made A cage is a strong image of feeling trapped A rope of sand is something that looks like a rope but is weak falls apart These images show the speaker s inner struggle He is thinking that his faith is just a false cage he has built for himself from his own thoughts In conclusion George Herbert uses powerful pictorial imagery in his poems His images like the flying and singing of larks the weight of a collar wine corn or cage make us feel the poet s spiritual journey These images make the poems easy to understand and deeply emotional