The Unique Position Of John Donne S Metaphysical Love Poetry In Renaissance Poetry

Author : Saleem Arif
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668273245

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The unique position of John Donne's metaphysical love poetry in Renaissance poetry by Saleem Arif Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of Anglophone Studies), course: A Survey of British Literature, language: English, abstract: As the title of this paper suggests this paper claims that Donne's metaphysical love poetry takes a unique position in Renaissance literature. Hence this paper aims at revealing and highlighting main themes and characteristics of Donne's love poetry. However, the focus will be on Donne's metaphysical love poetry. That is why the paper will start with defining what metaphysical poetry is and what its key features are. These preliminaries will be followed by the main analysis. In order to prove the main thesis of the unique position of Donne's love poetry the erotic and highly metaphysical poem 'The Flea' is chosen to be examined as a representative example. But at first I will have a closer look at the poem in terms of content, language and style. Afterwards the paper will close with a concluding comparison of the characteristics of Donne's metaphysical love poetry (found in 'The Flea') to popular Elizabethan poetry.

Author : Sabine Strebel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783668906549

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John Donne's Metaphysical Love Poetry by Sabine Strebel Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Most people would think of Shakespeare if they were asked for the most famous poet of the Elizabethan era. He invented the “Shakespearean Sonnet” after all, which is probably the only type of Renaissance poem German students have to read during their school career. However, Shakespeare was not the only author of sonnets during this time. Someone who deserves just as much acknowledgement in this area is John Donne, who had an especially meteoric comeback in 1921 due to the publication of Eliot’s essay “The Metaphysical Poets.” Roland Greene, an editor for the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, shows in the encyclopedia that many scholars actually consider Donne to be one of the greatest poets in the English language. His work focused on themes of love and devotion, both the physical and spiritual kinds. The latter can be also found in his poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” In this poem, Donne describes a situation every person who has fallen in love can relate to: the lovers face an upcoming farewell. Although the poem was written around 400 years ago, it still addresses issues that can be found in several poems, songs or other stories of our time. Maybe it would be too easy to compare Donne’s metaphysical love poetry to a current pop song since he elaborates this valediction with something resembling a catchy refrain: a series of four metaphysical conceits where he “unleashes all his rhetorical cleverness” as Greene calls it. What the title suggests and what also emerges upon a first reading is that the speaker wishes to forbid any mourning about the parting of the two lovers. They appear strong and well prepared since their love outshines the love of “[d]ull sublunary lover’s” (13). But after further reflection, and rereading the poem, the reader can deduce that the speaker is trying to cover up his worries and fears over the parting. Baumlin raises the question of whether the last three stanzas in Donne’s poem serve as a doubting promise that the speaker will return, and a plea for the woman’s continued faith.

Author : Albert James Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521259088

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The Metaphysics of Love by Albert James Smith Pdf

The author presents a wide-ranging account of the evolution of ideas of love from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

Author : Ronald Corthell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0814326765

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Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry by Ronald Corthell Pdf

Each chapter explores the interrelationships of representation, identification, and desire, while the book as a whole gradually shifts in emphasis from new historicist concerns with representation and the social realm toward psychoanalytic themes of identification, desire, and inwardness.

Author : Clay Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007496925

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Donne's Poetry by Clay Hunt Pdf

Author : Charles Eliot Norton
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9785875637360

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The Love Poems of John Donne by Charles Eliot Norton Pdf

Author : Sophie Barwich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3346013219

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Neoplatonist Notions of Love and Their Overcoming in John Donne's Poems by Sophie Barwich Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Augsburg, language: English, abstract: The aim of this term paper is to examine how John Donne broke with the Petrarchan tradition in English Renaissance poetry by openly alluding to sexuality while still including Neoplatonist and other Renaissance influences in his poetry. To this end, a look at some relevant aspects of Donne's life and views will be followed by an overview on Neoplatonist and Petrarchan influences on English Renaissance poetry and its dealing with love and sexuality. An analysis of two of Donne's poems illustrate the contrasting directions his poetry takes towards religious, spiritual and Neoplatonist ideas on the one and the allusion to sexuality on the other hand. Among the poets of the English Renaissance, John Donne is one of the most original and innovative one, with a collection of poems that even have a modernist touch in them. One of the things that makes John Donne's poetry so intriguing is its mixture of Neoplatonist or religious notions that had a great impact in English Renaissance poetry and the description of eroticism, physicality and sexuality that does not fit into the poetry marked by the Neoplatonism that followed the tradition of the Renaissance role model Petrarch and was very common at the time.

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178888518X

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The Poetry of John Donne by John Donne Pdf

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1861715390

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Air and Angels by John Donne Pdf

JOHN DONNE: AIR AND ANGELS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the finest poems by British poet John Donne. John Donne was, Robert Graves said, a 'Muse poet', a poetwho wrote passionately of the Muse. It is easy to see Donne asa love poet, in the tradition of love poets such as Bernard deVentadour, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Torquato Tasso. Donne has written his fair share of lovepoems. There are the bawdy allusions to the phallus in 'TheFlea', while 'The Comparison' parodies the adoration poem, with references to the 'sweat drops of my mistress' breast'. Like William Shakespeare in his parody sonnet 'my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun', Donne sends up the Petrarchan and courtly love genre with gross comparisons ('Like spermatic issue of ripe menstruous boils'). In 'The Bait', there is the archetypal Renaissance opening line 'Come live with me, and be my love', as used by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, among others. And there is the complex, ambivalent eroticism of 'The Extasie', a much celebrated love poem, and the 19th 'Elegy', where features Donne's famous couplet: Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. The Songs and Sonnets of John Donne celebrate the many emotions of love, feelings that are so familiar in love poetry from Sappho to Adrienne Rich. Donne does not quite cover every emotion of love, but a good deal of them. In 'The Canonization', we find the age-old Neo-platonic belief that two can become as one ('we two being one', or 'we shall/ Be one', he writes in 'Lovers' Infiniteness'), a common belief in love poetry. John Donne's love poetry, like (nearly) all love poetry, self-reflexive. Although he would 'ne'er parted be', as he writes in 'Song: Sweetest love, I do not go', he knows that love poetry comes out of loss. The beloved woman is not there, so art takes her place. The Songs and Sonnets arise from loss, loss of love; they take the place of love. For, if he were clasping his beloved in those feverish embraces as described in 'The Extasie' and 'Elegy', he would not, obviously, bother with poetry. Love poetry has this ambivalent, difficult relationship with love. The poem is not love, and is no real substitute for it. And writing of love exacerbates the pain and the insecurity of the experience of love. With an introduction and bibliography. Illustrated, with new pictures. The text has been revised for this edition. Also available in an E-book edition. www.crmoon.com. "

Author : Lena Gräf
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668691605

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Love and Sexuality in John Donne’s Sonnets. On Inner Conflicts, Desperation and the Devotion to God by Lena Gräf Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: One thing that matters quite a lot in Donne’s sonnets is that he was, on the one hand, “a very masculine lover of women”, on the other hand “a very devout lover of God” (cf. Edwards 6). He was constantly torn between sexual love and the love to God. This is why this term paper will also briefly explain what love and sexuality in the Renaissance were like. This might help to understand some of Donne’s motives. After that the sonnet will look at two of the Holy Sonnets in-depth and try to find out why he used the sexual imagery. Does it have a certain purpose or is Donne just that much into sexuality and love? One could actually claim that, even if most of the Holy Sonnets were written after his ordination in 1615, Donne probably used them to process that he keeps on being torn between sex and God – sometimes subliminal, sometimes more explicit. That is why the sonnets on hand, the fourteenth and the eighteenth, definitely combine both by using imagery and a certain choice of words.

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253050410

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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne by John Donne Pdf

Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, the eighth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of thirteen Divine Poems and details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion. Arranged chronologically within sections, the material is organized under the following headings: Dates and Circumstances; General Commentary; Genre; Language, Versification, and Style; the Poet/Persona; and Themes. The volume also offers a comprehensive digest of general and topical commentary on the Divine Poems from Donne's time through 2012.

Author : Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029579938

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Renaissance Discourses of Desire by Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth Pdf

Love and sex are preeminent subjects of Renaissance literature; however, attitudes toward these topics were hardly uniform. The discourses of desire from this period embrace works as dissimilar as sonnets on frustrated love and libertine invitations to lust. Writers both idealized and demystified sex, alternately equating it with religious transcendence or exposing it as a mere bodily itch. The fifteen essays in this volume clarify the sexual beliefs and prohibitions of the Renaissance period and examine the manifestations of those ideas in literature. Renaissance Discourses of Desire confronts important questions about the relationship of sexuality and textuality in the period using a variety of critical methods and ideological presuppositions. Some of the essays focus on the intertwining of political and sexual discourse, the difference between men and women as desiring subjects, and the erotics of criticism. The representation of homoerotics and homosexuality is discussed as is the impact of economic and social ideologies on love poetry and sexual expression. Among the texts explored are works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Carew, Herrick, Suckling, Burton, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and Milton. With their varied approaches, these essays illustrate the richness of the topic and its susceptibility to a number of critical techniques. Illuminating important authors and significant texts, the essays collected here contribute to a fuller understanding of the complexities and range of seventeenth-century discourses of desire, while also helping to chart the outlines of the period's sexual ideologies and anxieties.

Author : Ramie Targoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226789781

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John Donne, Body and Soul by Ramie Targoff Pdf

For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne’s works into a complete image of the poet and priest. In John Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Reappraising Donne’s oeuvre in pursuit of the struggles and commitments that connect his most disparate works, Targoff convincingly shows that Donne believed throughout his life in the mutual necessity of body and soul. In chapters that range from his earliest letters to his final sermon, Targoff reveals that Donne’s obsessive imagining of both the natural union and the inevitable division between body and soul is the most continuous and abiding subject of his writing. “Ramie Targoff achieves the rare feat of taking early modern theology seriously, and of explaining why it matters. Her book transforms how we think about Donne.”—Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781291422894

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Love poems by John Donne Pdf

One the leading metaphysical poets on human and heavenly love

Author : A.J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134905133

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John Donne: The Critical Heritage by A.J. Smith Pdf

Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and many others. Together these works present a record of how, from the nineteenth century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of today's literary canon.