It is not completely clear that Raleigh actually wrote this poem, given that the themes are not necessarily ones he would have agreed with at many times in his life.
The basic meaning of this poem is that the speaker believes that basically everything in the world is corrupt. The speaker believes that everything that pretends to be good is bad. Throughout the poem, the speaker is telling his soul to go and expose the truth about various things.
He wants to expose the lie that the church is a force for good. He wants to prove that the high born are ambitious and hateful. And he also wants to show that emotions that are supposed to be good (like love) are really not (love is just lust).
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