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Unmusicalness
Goe, and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake roote,
Tell me where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Devils foot,...
(Song)
• They were named as the metaphysical school of poets by John
Dryden and Dr. Johnson, not without a derogatory connotation.
• Samuel Johnson coined the term "metaphysical poets" to describe Donne and his poetic descendants when he wrote of Abraham Cowley in the Lives of the English Poets that the metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show learning was their whole endeavor.
(A Lecture upon the Shadow)
Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie, Until I labour, I in labour lie.
(Going to Bed)
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
The Metaphysical School
• The diction is simple, and echoes the words and cadences of common speech.
• The imagery is drawn from the actual life.
• The form is frequently that of an argument with the poet’s beloved, with god, or with himself.
• It reveals a persistent wittiness, making use of paradox, puns, and startling parallels.
• Donne’s poetry is remarkable for its fusion of passionate feeling and logical argument. The more he was moved, the quicker his mind worked.
Donne's first literary work, satires was written during this period . This was followed by Songs and Sonnets.
Then in 1617 Anne Donne died in giving birth to the couple's 12th child. Her death affected Donne greatly, though he continued to write, notably Holy Sonnets (1618).
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not soe,...
(Holy Sonnets)
Donne’s Poetry --- Verse argument
• Admiration for difficulty in the thought. It puts to use a
John Donne (1572?-1631)
• Donne’s poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses. The youthful love lyrics were published after his death as Songs and Sonnets in 1633. His early poems were love songs, elegies, and verse satires.
In his final years Donne's poems reflect an obsession with his own death, which came on March 31, 1631. John Donne is remembered for the wit and poignancy of his poetry.
Conceit (奇喻)
• Or far-fetched comparisons. A comparison becomes a conceit when we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness.
• It is a result from a vigorous exploitation of the natural rhythms of the speaking voice. Donne was a conscious artist, and he deliberately avoided conventional fluency of movement and courtliness of diction.
unique in English poetry; 5. fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles
• Later sacred verses: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions in 1624
1. showed the intense interest Donne took in the spectacle of morality under the shadow of death.
Busie old foole, unruly Sunne Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
----The Sunne Rising
Some more examples
Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, Love, in loves philosophy.
Donne’s Poetry --- Unmusicalness
• It is due to Donne’s conversational tone and employment of natural speech rhythms; Donne’s poetry is famous for its abrupt, direct, surprising openings. Plainly the aim here is not sweetness, grace, or verbal melody.
• Metaphysical wit --- comparison of apparently quite dissimilar objects of concepts and the discovery that they are after all similar.
– Roughness of meter and irregular rhyme.
• It adopts a diction and meter modeled on the rough giveand-take of actual speech. One of the prime causes of dissonant effects in Donne’s juxtaposing two or more stressed syllables.
John Donne’s Poetry
• Youthful love lyrics: Songs & Sonnets百度文库 1633
1. different from most of the Elizabethan lyrics, cut wide from the path of courtly polish and restraint;
2. whimsical and satirical in mood and almost exclamatory in tone; 3. characterized by directness, irony and cynicism. 4. suffused with an emotional intensity and a spiritualized ardour
Metaphysical Poetry
• The term applies to a group of 17th-century English poets who used certain common techniques and employed a few common themes.
– Revolt against Elizabethan love poetry and the tradition. – Psychological analysis of emotions of love and religion. – Penchant for novel and even shocking comparisons. – Metaphysical conceit --- extended metaphor.
The Metaphysical School
• Though there was no organized group of poets who imitated Donne, the influence of his poetic style was widely felt on George Herbert, Richard Crashow, Henry Vaughan, and A. Cowley.
Unit 4 John Donne (1572-1631)
Charles Ling
School of Foreign Studies, SCNU 2006.11.06
John Donne
• the leading figure of the metaphysical school
John Donne was born to a prosperous London in 1572. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, Elizabeth.
• Donne’s later sacred verses, published in 1624 as Devotions upon Emergent Occasions which show the intense interest Donne took in the spectacle of morality under the shadow of death, a vision that haunted him perpetually, and inspired the highest flights of his eloquence.
subtle and often outrageous logic.
• It is usually organized in the dramatic or rhetorical form of an urgent or heated argument (first drawing in the reader and then launching the argument).