Delaney 1 October 2013 ENG 210 The Flea by John Donne- Analysis In John Donne’s poem‚ The Flea‚ an extended metaphor of a flea is utilized to persuade a woman‚ a woman whom the speaker lusts after‚ to sacrifice her purity and her innocence to him. We learn of the speaker’s intentions through the first person voice of a young man. The speaker ventures to persuade his lover to spare the life of both herself and of the flea in the line‚ “ /O stay‚ three lives in one flea spare/ ” (Donne 10)
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in eternal lines to time thou grow’st; Because in my eternal verse you will live forever. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see‚ So long as there are people on this earth‚ So long lives this and this gives life to thee. So long will this poem live on‚ making you immortal. Notes temperate (1): i.e.‚ evenly-tempered; not overcome by passion. the eye of heaven (5): i.e.‚ the sun. every fair from fair sometime declines (7): i.e.‚ the beauty (fair) of everything beautiful (fair) will fade
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Comparison between Wordsworth’s and Keats’s poetry. ____ Wordsworth and Keats both belongs to Romantic age and both are the shining stars on the horizons of poetry. Both mark their names in the history of English literature through their work. ___John Keats and William Wordsworth believe in the "depth" of the world and the possibilities of the human heart. Regardless of where each poet looks for their inspiration they both are looking for the same thing; timeless innocence. Both poets sought to
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John Keats lived his life with influences coming through death and destruction. One of the most powerful influences in his life was his childhood school John Clarks Academy. There he was introduced to literature by Reverend John Clarke. Clarke showed him different things about life and politics. Charles Cowden Clark‚ the reverend’s son‚ was eight years older than Keats. As a mentor to Keats‚ Charles helped Keats develop his own personality. The death of Keats’s mother in 1810 caused a great impact
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John Keats’ essay. The poems written by John Keats are primarily concerned with the conflicted nature of the human existence as they look at the human state often with sadness‚ beauty and the imagination of one’s mind. The metaphysical world‚ beauty in nature and classical idealism are all pondered upon in Keats’ poems as these ideas are evidently indicated in the two poems “Ode on Melancholy” and “Ode To A Nightingale”. The metaphysical world relating to immortality and mortality constantly appears
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“Poems are successful because poets are expert wordsmiths‚ every bit as fastidious as sculptors and painters.” To what extent do you believe this view? John Keats incorporates a strong use of static imagery in order to construct the ideas and themes held within his poetry. The use of inanimate objects in his poetry sculptures Keats’s idealistic concept of permanence or immortality. The poems Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale are both examples of Keats’s work where static imagery emulates
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The poem "The Canonization" written by John Donne is about love. Throughout this poem Donne reveals both concepts of physical love and spiritual love. The words that Donne has chosen in this poem are an example of a poetic technique that not only allows the reader to understand the speaker‚ but also be able to see images based on his word choice about the different aspects of love. In the first stanza the opening line is "For God’s sake‚ hold your tongue‚ and let me love!" This line shows the importance
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In John Keats’s poem "To Sleep" the construction of the poem works to enhance the reader’s interpretation. The poem dwells within a sonnet form‚ extolling all the virtues of "sleep." Falling within the general bounds of the sonnet‚ the poem is the obligatory fourteen lines of iambic pentameter coupled with an elaborate rhyme scheme. Although most closely resembling the English sonnet‚ the deliberate wanderings of the poem from this strict sonnet form merely serve to enhance the meaning of the poem
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terminal tuberculosis‚ Keats focused on death and its inevitability in his work. For Keats‚ small‚ slow acts of death occurred every day‚ and he chronicled these small mortal occurrences. The end of a lover’s embrace‚ the images on an ancient urn‚ the reaping of grain in autumn—all of these are not only symbols of death‚ but instances of it. Examples of great beauty and art also caused Keats to ponder mortality‚ as in “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (1817). As a writer‚ Keats hoped he would live long
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in Selected Poems of Shelley and Keats Précis: This paper will entirely deal with the clashing characteristic of mortality and immortality traced in selected poems of Shelley and Keats and will proceed through discussing this distinctive aspect in these poems. After that there will be an estimation of mortality and immortality depicted throughout the poems. At the end of this paper‚ the success of both the poets skillful employment of mortality and immortality in the selected poems will be discussed
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