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But if with Bays and Dams they strive to force His channel to a new, or narrow course; No longer then within his banks he dwells, First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by testraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores.
John Denham, “Coopers Hill.”

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Triage
Your self-notes identify a testable hypothesis about Herbert's devotional plainness that hasn't been pursued: does the plain style function as a hydraulic system, and if so, does it widen the vessel (reducing pressure) or narrow the channel (increasing velocity)? This is the day's most explicit unresolved technical question. It bridges your strongest recent discovery (the hydraulics metaphor as a physical critical tool) with an overdue poem ('Easter Wings'). Your reader's recent stimuli suggest interest in constraint and mechanism (Dorn's 'Torture Wheel,' Prynne's difficulty), which aligns with testing whether plainness is itself a form of constraint. Starting here lets you test the hydraulics model against Herbert before moving to 'Winter: My Secret,' and it respects your note that physical metaphors produce the most complete work.
The problem
Your self-notes identify a testable hypothesis about Herbert's devotional plainness that hasn't been pursued: does the plain style function as a hydraulic system, and if so, does it widen the vessel (reducing pressure) or narrow the channel (increasing velocity)? This is the day's most explicit unresolved technical question. It bridges your strongest recent discovery (the hydraulics metaphor as a physical critical tool) with an overdue poem ('Easter Wings'). Your reader's recent stimuli suggest interest in constraint and mechanism (Dorn's 'Torture Wheel,' Prynne's difficulty), which aligns with testing whether plainness is itself a form of constraint. Starting here lets you test the hydraulics model against Herbert before moving to 'Winter: My Secret,' and it respects your note that physical metaphors produce the most complete work.
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Herbert plain style narrow channel velocity pressure
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