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John Donne. 童啟美 、 劉于甄 江珮鈺 、 黃宏文. The Flea. John Donne was already married to his wife when he wrote this poem to her. She was above his status and her parents disapproved of their marriage and so they couldn't get together yet. The poem is about seduction of the woman with the
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John Donne 童啟美、劉于甄 江珮鈺、黃宏文
The Flea John Donne was already married to his wife when he wrote this poem to her. She was above his status and her parents disapproved of their marriage and so they couldn't get together yet. The poem is about seduction of the woman with the use of the flea as a metaphor of their marriage. However she kills the flea in the third stanza and tells him that true love does not bear such false fears as the death of the pesky flea. He agrees with her and that's pretty much the whole poem. www.themegallery.com
The Flea Form The rhyme scheme in each stanza is similarly regular, in couplets, with the final line rhyming with the final couplet: AABBCCDDD. www.themegallery.com
Song The persona in this poem, which is also a dramatic monologue, is telling his listener about the fickleness and inconstancy of women. His use of mythological characters and situations suggests that a constant woman is also just a figment of the imagination. In the second stanza, he tells his listener that if they were to ride for an age they would still never be able to find a woman who is "true, and fair". And, he continues in the third stanza, even if he did, by the time the persona meets her, she will have shown her true colors. www.themegallery.com
Song Form The rhyme scheme in each stanza is similarly regular, in couplets, with the final line rhyming with the final couplet: ABABCCDDD. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning AS virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No." So let us melt, and make no noise, 5 No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ; Men reckon what it did, and meant ; 10 But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love —Whose soul is sense—cannot admit Of absence, 'cause it doth remove 15 The thing which elemented it. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning But we by a love so much refined, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assurèd of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss. 20 Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so 25 As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, 30 It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, oblqiuely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35 And makes me end where I begun. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning • Metaphors • "As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go… • so let us melt, and make no noise. " • Here the author uses • metaphor of a virtuous man passing away that refers to his long departure, • and asks his lover not to be sad, and do not cry. • 2. "No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move. " • John Donne uses floods to compare with tears, and tempests to compare with sign. • Hyperbole and natural phenomena are used to be compared to this love relationship. • He uses this kind of emotional outbreak of laity's reaction to separation, • so as to highlight how refined his love is. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 3."Moving of the earth brings harm and fears… though greater far, is innocent." (the third stanza) The author implies the terrifying earthquakes as physical departure of those laity people. The movement of the spheres implies the spiritual departure of his lover and him. www.themegallery.com
Symbol • 1.melt: • physically and spiritually mixed together. • 2.The sphere: • perfection which represents the union of souls in a relationship. • 3.The circle: • it means perfection, too. • 4. The compasses: • combination of two lovers; closely related to each other. That kind of relationship which cannot be separated. www.themegallery.com
Structure • Stanza one: We consider it as a "foreword". It talks about a man is going to leave far away and ask his lover not to be sad for their love is noble. • Stanza two to five (the first persuasive view point): The speaker convinced the woman, his lover by telling her that his departure will not change their love for their love is based on inter-assured of the minds, not on physical contact, such as eyes, lips and head. The author also tells readers that their love is noble so laity people cannot understand it. Besides, he uses metaphors. For example, in stanza three, he compares the pain of two lovers physical separation to the earthquakes. www.themegallery.com
Structure 3. Stanza five to the last stanza (the second persuasive view point): The speaker still uses metaphors such as the endless expansion of gold to imply no matter how far they are apart, they are always together. He also compares their closely related and inseparable relationship to the compasses which its two legs are combined together whenever. The compasses means that even one part of them are separated, the other parts are still together. Plus, the outer leg moves (the man), the inner leg (the woman) moves, too. This metaphor describes perfectly their relationship. www.themegallery.com
The Anniversary ALL kings, and all their favourites,All glory of honours, beauties, wits,The sun it self, which makes time, as they pass,Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw.All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay ;This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday ;Running it never runs from us away,But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. www.themegallery.com
The Anniversary Two graves must hide thine and my corse ; If one might, death were no divorce.Alas ! as well as other princes, we—Who prince enough in one another be—Must leave at last in death these eyes and ears,Oft fed with true oaths, and with sweet salt tears ; But souls where nothing dwells but love—All other thoughts being inmates—then shall proveThis or a love increasèd there above,When bodies to their graves, souls from their graves remove. www.themegallery.com
The Anniversary And then we shall be throughly blest ; But now no more than all the rest.Here upon earth we're kings, and none but weCan be such kings, nor of such subjects be.Who is so safe as we? where none can doTreason to us, except one of us two. True and false fears let us refrain,Let us love nobly, and live, and add againYears and years unto years, till we attainTo write threescore ; this is the second of our reign. www.themegallery.com
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness Summary First stanza: The speaker says that since he will soon die and come to "that holy room" where he will be made into the music of God as sung by a choir of saints, he tunes "the instrument" now and thinks what he will do when the final moment comes. www.themegallery.com
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness Summary Second stanza: He likens his doctors to cosmographers and himself to a map, lying flat on the bed to be shown. Third stanza: He rejoices because death will not harm him. West and east meet and join in all flat maps and in the same way, death is one with the resurrection. www.themegallery.com
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness Summary Fourth stanza: The speaker asks where his home is and says that only straits can offer access to paradise. Fifth stanza: The speaker says that "Paradise and Calvary, / Christ's Cross, and Adam's tree" stood in the same place. He asks God to look and to note that both Adams (Christ being the second Adam) are unified in him. www.themegallery.com
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness Summary Sixth stanza: He asks God to receive him wrapped in the purple of Christ. As he preached the word of God to others' souls, he says, let this be his sermon to his own soul: "Therefore that he may raise the Lord throws down." www.themegallery.com
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness Form Each of the six five-line stanzas follows an ABABB rhyme scheme, and the poem is metered throughout in iambic pentameter. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; Donne is saying that Death likes to think of himself as powerful and terrifying, and indeed some people have called him that, but he is not so in truth. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. Death thinks that he is "overthrowing" men when he takes them, but he does not cause them to fall. He helps them to finds Resurrection. Donne is sarcastic with "poor Death", who is so deluded as to think himself a bane on man's existence. And again, "nor yet canst thou kill me", hearkens back to the same idea that Death does not kill, but is instead the enabler of new, immortal life. Death cannot kill him, thus he holds no power over the speaker. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure；then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Here we have the Renaissance idea of sleep as death's image . They go with Death, their bones get to their rest (in the grave), and their souls get "delivered" (set free), containing the meanings at the same time of 1. being freed from the human body 2. freed from the fear of death 3. delivered into heaven 4. delivered in the sense of being born, or reborn. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee • Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, • Here, Donne furthers the idea that Death is not mighty, but indeed is a slave, with “fate, chance, kings, and desperate men" as his masters. The personified Death does not always have the power to choose who is to die and chance may suddenly take someone, kings on a whim may doom people • to their deaths, and desperate men, who see no way out, • may take their own lives, thus cheating Death of his control and mastery. Next, Donne likens Death to a scavenger who cleans up where poison, war, and sickness have raged. • How proud is his position now? www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee • And poppy,or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then? • Donne notes that drugs alike have the power of producing sleep, and in fact, create a truer sleep than Death. Thus, Death's omnipotent self-image is again belittled and shown as false hubris. Since this is the • case, what reason are you, Death, proud? www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee • One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die. • After we are dead a fleeting moment,we will wake up resurrected, to eternal life, never to sleep or die again. Then, death will cease to exist altogether, will die. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Here now the personified Death has been shown to be not mighty and dreadful,but a mere mortal, since he will die an eternal death at the resurrection, whereas we mortals will enjoy eternal life. The final pronouncement completes the idea that Death is the one who should be afraid, not the one to be feared. www.themegallery.com
