ENG 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Donne, Holy Sonnets, The Sun Rising
6 Feb 2017
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J = critical of society, d = focused on individual. J = traditional style, direct, colloquial; d = inventive, variety, shifts, individuality, dramatic. J = stated elegance; d = poet of vigourous invention. Both looking to elizabethan predecessors and setting themselves apart from them. Variations of rhythm; shocking turns of phrase; purposeful obscurity. He wasn"t interested in a wide readership, so passed them around in manuscript format. Possibly taking control away from idealized woman i = main focus, not she . Mp deals with 1st principles of reality: donne uses philosophical ideas to get us to think about the nature of reality, part of what makes him difficult. Common poetic style and way of organizing thought (more of a questioning than anything else, intellectual strenuousness) Metaphysical conceit = extended or elaborate metaphor: dissimilar images joined together, heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together (dr. samuel johnson, ex. The evening is like a patient etherized upon a table (elliot"s j alfred.
