In the eyes of history,the separation,especially separation between lovers is an eternal theme in literature works.In this paper,through comparisons and contrasts between Liu Yong’s Bells in the Ringing in the Rain a...In the eyes of history,the separation,especially separation between lovers is an eternal theme in literature works.In this paper,through comparisons and contrasts between Liu Yong’s Bells in the Ringing in the Rain and John Donne’s A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning from various perspectives and different backgrounds,the similarities as well as differences between these two Chinese and English poems can be perceived.A comprehensive and better understanding of the theme of separation can be obtained as well.展开更多
As the representative figure of Metaphysical Poetry, John Donne's poetry is characterized by unconventional forms, pe culiar images, and abundant conceits. Though John Donne's poems were ignored in his time, y...As the representative figure of Metaphysical Poetry, John Donne's poetry is characterized by unconventional forms, pe culiar images, and abundant conceits. Though John Donne's poems were ignored in his time, yet they have catered for the taste of modern writers and readers. This paper aims to study John Donne's poetry in terms of Victor Shklovsky's theory of defamiliarization, hoping to enrich the discussions of John Donne.展开更多
Among the sundry studies in China on John Donne's The Flea,there has been none done from the perspective of Reader-Oriented Theory to probe into the readers' roles in the construction of meaning.The present ar...Among the sundry studies in China on John Donne's The Flea,there has been none done from the perspective of Reader-Oriented Theory to probe into the readers' roles in the construction of meaning.The present article under Wolfgang Iser's theories,in a further pursuit of the expansion of the gestalt of such studies on the poem,aims at exploring the readers' active roles in complementing,completing and recreating the textual meaning,and differentiating the implied reader and the actual reader through the poem as well as attempting to fulfill the construction of the reading cognitive model through the interpretation of the conceit the flea.展开更多
The Sun Rising is one of the most famous metaphysical poems of John Donne.The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock is known as the first Modernist poem of T.S Eliot.This paper mainly aims to analyze the strikingly unconvent...The Sun Rising is one of the most famous metaphysical poems of John Donne.The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock is known as the first Modernist poem of T.S Eliot.This paper mainly aims to analyze the strikingly unconventional images use in the two poems,and make comments on their effect on expressing the poet emotions.展开更多
Known as a representative of the English metaphysical poets, John Donne＇s poems are under Protestant pretence. Scepticism, cynicism, anxiety and penitence as well as the employment of numerous religious images constr...Known as a representative of the English metaphysical poets, John Donne＇s poems are under Protestant pretence. Scepticism, cynicism, anxiety and penitence as well as the employment of numerous religious images construct the unique and profound characteristics of John Donne＇s poetry. The paper focuses on the Protestant pretence in Donne＇s poetry. In order to avoid religious persecution and to realize his ambition, Donne deserted Catholicism and converted into a Protestant. Inner conflicts and struggle are revealed in many of his poems. Scepticism and penitence are also embodiments of Donne＇s Protestant pretence in poetry.展开更多
This paper attempts to interpret Donne＇s ＂Holy Sonnets＂ as spiritual experiences. Donne＇s works are better understood through the optic of Biblical knowledge, the backdrop of God＇s revelation of Himself. A poet w...This paper attempts to interpret Donne＇s ＂Holy Sonnets＂ as spiritual experiences. Donne＇s works are better understood through the optic of Biblical knowledge, the backdrop of God＇s revelation of Himself. A poet whose heart is kindled by the Spirit of his Maker and whose mind is illumined by His Word recognizes a much deeper sense of transcendent reality. As Donne uses the most potent but intimate of words to express his interaction with God, his sonnets ground the sacred. In their fluctuating moods, the sonnets reverberate as radically varied experiences of God. Grand theological truths are translated into personal and passionate encounter with God.展开更多
John Donne’s poetry is noted for its use of conceit. The reason why his poems have special charm is not only that heis able to master this rhetorical device skillfully, but also that he has made conceit into a mode o...John Donne’s poetry is noted for its use of conceit. The reason why his poems have special charm is not only that heis able to master this rhetorical device skillfully, but also that he has made conceit into a mode of thinking.Therefore, conceit carries his philosophical speculation, love oath and religious piety, and this unique expressionproduces novel effect of defamiliarization and strengthens the emotional tension of his poetry.展开更多
John Donne is particularly famous for his mastery of the metaphysical conceit.And among the diverse metaphorical conceits Donne`s use of the alchemical imagery is significant.This paper is to analyze the alchemical im...John Donne is particularly famous for his mastery of the metaphysical conceit.And among the diverse metaphorical conceits Donne`s use of the alchemical imagery is significant.This paper is to analyze the alchemical imagery in Donne`s poems and how Donne employs it for his poetic purpose through textual analyses.And this paper aims to give a panoramic view of the alchemical motif in Donne`s poems.展开更多
John Donne is the representative of the metaphysical in the literary history. Song and Sonnets are love poems which express Donne's love outlook and his attitude towards woman. In Song and Sonnets, the most well-k...John Donne is the representative of the metaphysical in the literary history. Song and Sonnets are love poems which express Donne's love outlook and his attitude towards woman. In Song and Sonnets, the most well-known poems are: "Song" ("Go and Catch a Falling Star"), "The Flea," "The Sun Rising" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." This paper divides his love poetry into three kinds. Through close reading, on one hand, we can understand him and his poems better; on the other hand we can explore his love outlook better.展开更多
It was a tradition in Elizabethan time that love poems were written to praise lovers'fidelity,but Donne boldly broke the tradition and chose faithlessness as the theme in some of his poems.The paper analyzes a ser...It was a tradition in Elizabethan time that love poems were written to praise lovers'fidelity,but Donne boldly broke the tradition and chose faithlessness as the theme in some of his poems.The paper analyzes a series of images in Donne's love po ems to present the theme of faithlessness and then it discusses the reasons why Donne deals with the theme.Faithlessness in Don ne's love poems can not be interpreted only as Donne's doubt about love.The discussion of love's fidelity in his poems also comes from Donne's sensibility about instability of the world and his perturbation of religious belief.展开更多
＂The Sun Rising＂ is one of the most outstanding metaphysical poems of John Donne. After a general introduction about the metaphysical poetry and the author, this paper mainly aims to analyze the arresting and origin...＂The Sun Rising＂ is one of the most outstanding metaphysical poems of John Donne. After a general introduction about the metaphysical poetry and the author, this paper mainly aims to analyze the arresting and original conceits and images used in ＂The Sun Rising＂ and comment on their effect on expressing the author＇s feeling and reflecting his emotions.展开更多
The article focuses on the brief study of the metaphysical poets,who were men of learning,and to show learning was their whole endeavor. The chief metaphysical poets include John Donne,Richard Crashaw,Andrew Marvell,G...The article focuses on the brief study of the metaphysical poets,who were men of learning,and to show learning was their whole endeavor. The chief metaphysical poets include John Donne,Richard Crashaw,Andrew Marvell,George Herbert,and Henry Vaughan. They preferred wildly original images,puns,similes,and metaphors,which collectively are called metaphysical conceits. The term metaphysical implies the poetry is abstract and highly complicated. The group shares certain traits,but their themes,structures,and assorted tones in their poetry vary widely.展开更多
No man is an iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of theContinent, a part of the mane, if a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the lesse, as well as if a promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy ...No man is an iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of theContinent, a part of the mane, if a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the lesse, as well as if a promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy friend or of thine owne were; any man’s death diminishes me, because Ⅰ am involved in Mankinde. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.展开更多
John Donne,being famous for his use of metaphysical metaphors,is one of the most successful poets of the 17th century English.His metaphysical poem“A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning”plays a significant role during t...John Donne,being famous for his use of metaphysical metaphors,is one of the most successful poets of the 17th century English.His metaphysical poem“A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning”plays a significant role during the Renaissance.In his poems,the compass is compared to lovers,which becomes the classic love metaphor.This essay aims to analyze the discrepancy between the death at the beginning and the love’s constancylater,and how John Donne illustrates two groups of contrast:spiritual love and physical love,temporal love and eternal love.展开更多
文摘In the eyes of history,the separation,especially separation between lovers is an eternal theme in literature works.In this paper,through comparisons and contrasts between Liu Yong’s Bells in the Ringing in the Rain and John Donne’s A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning from various perspectives and different backgrounds,the similarities as well as differences between these two Chinese and English poems can be perceived.A comprehensive and better understanding of the theme of separation can be obtained as well.
文摘As the representative figure of Metaphysical Poetry, John Donne's poetry is characterized by unconventional forms, pe culiar images, and abundant conceits. Though John Donne's poems were ignored in his time, yet they have catered for the taste of modern writers and readers. This paper aims to study John Donne's poetry in terms of Victor Shklovsky's theory of defamiliarization, hoping to enrich the discussions of John Donne.
文摘Among the sundry studies in China on John Donne's The Flea,there has been none done from the perspective of Reader-Oriented Theory to probe into the readers' roles in the construction of meaning.The present article under Wolfgang Iser's theories,in a further pursuit of the expansion of the gestalt of such studies on the poem,aims at exploring the readers' active roles in complementing,completing and recreating the textual meaning,and differentiating the implied reader and the actual reader through the poem as well as attempting to fulfill the construction of the reading cognitive model through the interpretation of the conceit the flea.
文摘The Sun Rising is one of the most famous metaphysical poems of John Donne.The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock is known as the first Modernist poem of T.S Eliot.This paper mainly aims to analyze the strikingly unconventional images use in the two poems,and make comments on their effect on expressing the poet emotions.
文摘Known as a representative of the English metaphysical poets, John Donne＇s poems are under Protestant pretence. Scepticism, cynicism, anxiety and penitence as well as the employment of numerous religious images construct the unique and profound characteristics of John Donne＇s poetry. The paper focuses on the Protestant pretence in Donne＇s poetry. In order to avoid religious persecution and to realize his ambition, Donne deserted Catholicism and converted into a Protestant. Inner conflicts and struggle are revealed in many of his poems. Scepticism and penitence are also embodiments of Donne＇s Protestant pretence in poetry.
文摘This paper attempts to interpret Donne＇s ＂Holy Sonnets＂ as spiritual experiences. Donne＇s works are better understood through the optic of Biblical knowledge, the backdrop of God＇s revelation of Himself. A poet whose heart is kindled by the Spirit of his Maker and whose mind is illumined by His Word recognizes a much deeper sense of transcendent reality. As Donne uses the most potent but intimate of words to express his interaction with God, his sonnets ground the sacred. In their fluctuating moods, the sonnets reverberate as radically varied experiences of God. Grand theological truths are translated into personal and passionate encounter with God.
文摘John Donne’s poetry is noted for its use of conceit. The reason why his poems have special charm is not only that heis able to master this rhetorical device skillfully, but also that he has made conceit into a mode of thinking.Therefore, conceit carries his philosophical speculation, love oath and religious piety, and this unique expressionproduces novel effect of defamiliarization and strengthens the emotional tension of his poetry.
文摘John Donne is particularly famous for his mastery of the metaphysical conceit.And among the diverse metaphorical conceits Donne`s use of the alchemical imagery is significant.This paper is to analyze the alchemical imagery in Donne`s poems and how Donne employs it for his poetic purpose through textual analyses.And this paper aims to give a panoramic view of the alchemical motif in Donne`s poems.
文摘John Donne is the representative of the metaphysical in the literary history. Song and Sonnets are love poems which express Donne's love outlook and his attitude towards woman. In Song and Sonnets, the most well-known poems are: "Song" ("Go and Catch a Falling Star"), "The Flea," "The Sun Rising" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." This paper divides his love poetry into three kinds. Through close reading, on one hand, we can understand him and his poems better; on the other hand we can explore his love outlook better.
文摘It was a tradition in Elizabethan time that love poems were written to praise lovers'fidelity,but Donne boldly broke the tradition and chose faithlessness as the theme in some of his poems.The paper analyzes a series of images in Donne's love po ems to present the theme of faithlessness and then it discusses the reasons why Donne deals with the theme.Faithlessness in Don ne's love poems can not be interpreted only as Donne's doubt about love.The discussion of love's fidelity in his poems also comes from Donne's sensibility about instability of the world and his perturbation of religious belief.
文摘＂The Sun Rising＂ is one of the most outstanding metaphysical poems of John Donne. After a general introduction about the metaphysical poetry and the author, this paper mainly aims to analyze the arresting and original conceits and images used in ＂The Sun Rising＂ and comment on their effect on expressing the author＇s feeling and reflecting his emotions.
文摘The article focuses on the brief study of the metaphysical poets,who were men of learning,and to show learning was their whole endeavor. The chief metaphysical poets include John Donne,Richard Crashaw,Andrew Marvell,George Herbert,and Henry Vaughan. They preferred wildly original images,puns,similes,and metaphors,which collectively are called metaphysical conceits. The term metaphysical implies the poetry is abstract and highly complicated. The group shares certain traits,but their themes,structures,and assorted tones in their poetry vary widely.
文摘No man is an iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of theContinent, a part of the mane, if a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the lesse, as well as if a promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy friend or of thine owne were; any man’s death diminishes me, because Ⅰ am involved in Mankinde. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
文摘John Donne,being famous for his use of metaphysical metaphors,is one of the most successful poets of the 17th century English.His metaphysical poem“A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning”plays a significant role during the Renaissance.In his poems,the compass is compared to lovers,which becomes the classic love metaphor.This essay aims to analyze the discrepancy between the death at the beginning and the love’s constancylater,and how John Donne illustrates two groups of contrast:spiritual love and physical love,temporal love and eternal love.
