John Donne in this poem “The Ecstasy” highlights the dual rule of love: physical as well as spiritual. Basically, the poem deals with the relationship of the body with that of the soul in love. Ecstasy or Extasie is the feeling of extraordinary happiness, leading to spiritual exaltation. Extasie is an old spelling of the […]
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The love poem “Air and Angels” stirs our imagination that the idea of platonic love, though holy and spiritual but is baseless. Donne does not believe in the blind worship of his idol of love and nor in the superficial admiration of her beauty. In his opinion, love is a child of the soul. It
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The word “metaphysical” has been defined differently by various writers, e.g. R.S. Hillier writes: “Literally, it has to do with the conception of existence, with the living universe and the man’s place therein. Loosely it has taken such meanings as these difficult, philosophical, obscure, ethereal, involved, supercilious, ingenious, fantastic, and incongruous. “ Dryden was the
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Is Donne insincere in his treatment of women? We will discuss this question in the light of his poems. Before Donne started writing his love poems, his predecessors were involved in the theme of woman worship. It was replete with allusions to gods and goddesses of mythology. The Elizabethan love poetry was based purely on
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John Donne has written a large number of lyrics. They are in different forms like songs, sonnets; elegies, and anniversaries. He was born a little late in the Elizabethan age. If he had been born about twenty years earlier, he would have started writing dramas like Shakespeare and Marlowe. Though Donne showed great keenness and
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The Personality Behind “Twinkle,Twinkle, Little Star” “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,How I wonder what you are!Up above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky.When the blazing sun is gone,When he nothing shines upon,Then you show your little light,Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.Then the trav’ller in the dark,Thanks you for your tiny spark,He could not
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The Monster In The Closet Of Luckey You There was no monster in the closet of the schoolgirl of the small town and if this was, he was going to be kicked out, kicked out far-far away, and with him the insignificance of a small town. Who knew that a small-town schoolgirl, who won the
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Donne’s poems were written by him during different periods of his life but were published in 1635. A reader cannot find a single definition of love from his poems, because, during every period, his approach to love has been varying according to his mood and attitude and even personal experiences. Some of his poems are
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John Donne is a poet of love, and his love lyrics are replete with realism. When we read them deeply, we find that he oscillates between physical love and holy love. He very much believes in the sanctity and dignity of married life. Being realistic in his approach, he presents various love situations in his
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“The name of Milton”, says Raleigh, has become the work, not of biography nor of a theme, but of a style the most distinguished in our poetry”. Whatever he has written, in “The Paradise Lost”, every line of it impresses the reader of its originality. As Macaulay has said, “There is no square inch of
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