Sir Philip Sidney‚ “Sonnet 31” 2. Conceit- an elaborate‚ fanciful metaphor. “Our two souls therefore‚ which are one‚ though I must go‚ endure not yet a breach‚ but an expansion‚ like gold to aery thinness beat.” John Donne‚ “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” 3. Hyperbole- an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. “I brought a heart into the room‚ but from the room I carried none with me.”
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poetry is more centered on religion and eternal life. Andrew Marvell‚ as well as other cavaliers‚ often spent their time indulging in worldly pleasures. John Donne was a clergymen‚ so he spent most of his time in the church and with other clergymen‚ meaning how he spends his time is different from how Andrew Marvell and the cavaliers spend theirs. In John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress‚" time and how little time we have ourselves‚ is the main theme‚ but how we spend
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understood in John Donne’s‚ "Death‚ be not proud" as well as in Emily Dickinson’s "Because I could not stop for Death". Despite the different implications in each poem‚ the central theme is death. The inevitable realization of death is explored in both poems‚ by examining death as a person and by reflecting the poets’ religious beliefs. Although John Donne’s poem was written in 1633‚ the theme of death can be compared to Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ written about two centuries later. Both Donne and Dickinson
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John Donne is made up of various writing such as strong/sensual style‚ love poems‚ religious poems and latin translations‚ epigrams‚ elegies‚ songs‚ satires‚ and sermons. John was an author who was very passionate‚ yet had difficulty expressing and “to prove that glorified bodies in heaven are essentially identical to the bodies possessed on earth” as stated by Professor Ramie Targoff. Donne believes that the union of body and soul is what “makes
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What according to T. S. Eliot‚ is ‘dissociation of sensibility’? What is his charge against Milton and Dryden in the essay on ‘The Metaphysical Poets’? Eliot’s theory of the ‘dissociation of sensibility’ may be said to be an attempt to find some kind of historical explanation to the dissolution of the tradition of unified sensibility which found its perfection in the writings of Dante and Shakespeare. The unified sensibility was a sensibility which was the product of a true synthesis of the individual
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_____. "An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul ’s‚ Dr. John Donne." 1633‚ 1640. _____. "An Elegie upon the Death of Dr. Donne." In The Metaphysical Poets. Ed. Helen Gardner. Harmondsworth‚ 1957. _____. "An Elegy upon the Death of Dr. Donne‚ Dean of Paul ’s." In Vincent‚ Arthur‚ ed. The Poems of Thomas Carew. London: George Routledge & Sons‚ Ltd.‚ nd. 100-103. _____. "An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul ’s‚ Dr. John Donne." In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M. H.
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deep passion. John Donne‚ however‚ takes a divergent approach from this ancient art in his poem‚ The Flea. Rather than utilizing the standard emblems of love and lust‚ Donne brilliantly uses symbolism to transform the implausible image of
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Metaphysical Poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell were considered metaphysical poets based on their use of conceit and wit in depicting similar situations through different metaphors. They would use original analogies to create fitting and insightful comparisons‚ usually to persuade. John Donne and Andrew Marvell have been called metaphysical poets. This is a‚” name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th century” (Metaphysical poets)” The term metaphysical poets came to be used almost
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life after death. Interestingly‚ each author takes a different side while revealing parallel‚ underlying theories. Within their sonnets‚ John Donne and Rochester try to quell the common fear of death. Despite their efforts‚ it is evident through rhetorical devices and various analogies that death should be feared‚ as it is a negative occurrence. Rochester and Donne attempt to shed a calming light on the event of death at surface value. However‚ beneath this facade‚ it is evident that both texts contain
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Throughout Margaret Edson’s post modern drama‚ a plethora of implicit and explicit connections to John Donne’s metaphysical poetry are illuminated through the characterisation of Vivian Bearing as she lives through Donne. John Donne has been abducted to the sterilized academic world of ‘publish or perish’‚ along with the myriad central values of enduring themes that engulf the audience due to their prevailing ability to transcend contextual barriers. The connections shared between Donne’s metaphysical
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