that the affection between two true lovers is metaphysical and can therefore resist any strain. Throughout the poem‚ Donne never explicitly states his opinion but rather uses a chain of extended metaphors to argue his point. Thus through a series of conceits‚ Donne attempts to convinces his wife that the love between them transcends the physical realm‚ is equivalent to perfection‚ and is unlike the plebeian relationships of ordinary people. Donne begins his contention that their love is metaphysical
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mystery; ‘legend’ (stanza 4) – we all remember love stories as legends‚ sadly these are mostly incomplete ones; ‘mirrors’ (stanza 5) – love is as reflective as a mirror‚ etc. Love is closely related to asceticism in the poem‚ which is one of the conceits used by the poet. He proves it with great subtlety that the lovers need nothing from the world; they complete each other and hence find peace in each other. The
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attention of the reader. At first instance Donne rejects his past views with passionate contempt but further realizes that if it were not for these carnal ways‚ his metamorphosis into the spiritual could not have occurred. In an exceptional metaphysical conceit‚ this imperforate love is compared to that of mothers milk‚ whereas his indulgence in country pleasures are portrayed as weaning to connote the crucial existence of a relationship existing between the body and the soul – “were we not weaned till then
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Donne‚ the speaker is consoling his lover who is mournful of the speaker’s imminent departure. The speaker is saying that since they have stronger than ordinary love for one another‚ their love will endure the separation. Donne uses metaphysical conceits and comparative imagery to illustrate the crux of the poem. The speaker is reassuring his lover by reminding her of how great their love is; it transcends the physical and therefore will overcome whatever obstacle is set on their path. He is forbidding
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"father" of metaphysical poetry. The common factors that bind the cavaliers and the metaphysical poets are the following: - Their use of colloquial‚ conversational style‚ - Cavaliers sometimes strived to imitate highly intellectual metaphysical conceits‚ - Departure from Petrarchan influence: the lady is no longer an object of desire to be admired from a far‚ but an actual collocutor‚ to whom the poem is addressed as an argument usually trying to induce them to exercise their sexuality ("Had we
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UNMDP-FH Depto. de Lenguas Modernas Profesorado de Inglés English Literature Close Reading “The Sun Rising” By John Donne Student: SALADINO‚ Luciana Andrea Reg #: 15776/06 THE SUN RISING[1] by John Donne BUSY old fool‚ unruly Sun‚ Why dost thou thus‚ Through windows‚ and through curtains‚ call on us ? Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run ? Saucy pedantic wretch‚ go chide Late school-boys and sour prentices‚ Go tell court-huntsmen that the
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Live & Walk the 7-Habits Dorothy Chan September 2006 My Role Share the book titled “The 7-Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey Your Role A – Attend S – Study T – Teach A – Apply R – Review 1 Search under Amazon.com 2 1st September‚ 1923 Tokyo 2nd September Great Earth-quake All buildings collapsed‚ except the Imperial Hotel. Foundation Roots 3 What kind of person am I? Character & Personality ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Good Character
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SONNET 18 William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 is one of one hundred fifty four poems of fourteen lines written in Iambic Pentameter. These sonnets exclusively employ the rhyme scheme‚ which has come to be called the Shakespearean Sonnet. The sonnets are composed of an octet and sestet and typically progress through three quatrains to a concluding couplet. It also contains figurative language and different poetic devices used to create unique effects in his sonnets. Shakespeare’s sonnets consist of words
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/ Could force his soul so to his own conceit / That from her working all his visage wann’d‚ / Tears in his eyes‚ distraction in’s aspect‚ / A broken voice‚ and his whole function suiting / With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!”(). Hamlet opens this soliloquy with an open lamentation about his current situation. He is so bewildered and self-deprecating because while these actors are almost able to trick themselves‚ reflected through the word “conceit”‚ into showing emotion‚ while he cannot
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unmitigated‚ arid unbedecked self. He saw all the garbs of pretence and egoism that he had worn now turn to rags of folly. He shuddered at the thought that to others‚ before now‚ the garments of his soul must have appeared sorry and threadbare. Vanity and conceit? These were the joints in his armor. And how free from either she had always been--But why-- As she had slowly moved up the aisle toward the altar he had felt an unworthy‚
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