Great Regulars: Winthrop [Mackworth Praed] grants a marriage a

metaphysical dimension beyond the mundane. This reminds me of "The Rainbow" by D. H. Lawrence, in which the farmer Tom Brangwen remarks, "So I say, an Angel is the soul of man and woman in one: they rise united at the Judgment Day, as one Angel . . ." While this may not be a literal truth, it is an emotional truth about the transcendent experience of two people willing to pledge themselves to each other. The poem's final image of the linking hands has a touching pathos; the final "together" a resolute strength.

Does the poem strike us as dated?

from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: A Reading of 'The Newly-Wedded'

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