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English Literature. College of Foreign Languages China Three Gorges University. Teaching Outline. Finish “The Features of John Donne’s Poetry” & his influence 1 Review 2 John Milton 3 Paradise Lost. The Features of John Donne’s Poetry. 1 original images and conceits.

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  1. English Literature College of Foreign Languages China Three Gorges University

  2. Teaching Outline • Finish “The Features of John Donne’s Poetry” & his influence • 1 Review • 2 John Milton • 3 Paradise Lost

  3. The Features of John Donne’s Poetry • 1 original images and conceits. • the imagery / the actual life. • It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, • And in this flea , our two bloods mingled be; • This flea is you and I, and this • Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;

  4. The Features of John Donne’s Poetry • 2 in the dramatic form of an argument • 3 use of colloquial speech • 4 witty • 5 flexibility of rhythm and meter • 6 humour • 7 reflect life

  5. Influence • During the 18th -19th centuries / less appreciated • But in the late 19th - early 20th centuries/ T.S. Eliot/praised and imitated / modern poetic practice/ an acknowledged master.

  6. Metaphysical Poetry • the poetry of John Donne and other 17th poets who wrote in a similar style. It is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas. • the metaphysical conceit(奇喻)

  7. The Cavalier Poets • knights and squires/ supported the king/ / short songs/ the flitting joys of the day/ pessimism • Sir John Suckling(1609-1642) • Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) • Thomas Carew (1598-1639) • Robert Herrick (1591-1674).

  8. 2John Milton (1609-1674) • humanist ideals & Puritan morals Renaissance and Reformation/the Puritan Period (1649 - 1660 ) • classic & revolutionary

  9. 2.1 Life • a Puritan family / educated at Cambridge/ hard-working “From my twelfth year I scarcely ever went to bed before midnight, which was the first cause of injury to my eyes”. • an active participant / a fighter • Latin Secretary • Imprisonment/ blindness

  10. 2.2Works • 1 up to 1641 /humanist and Elizabethan • Lyric: Lycidas (1638) • 2 from 1641 to 1654 /the Puritan • The Reason of Church Government (1642) • The Defense of the English People (1650) • The Second Defence of the English People (1654) • 3 from 1655 to 1671/ humanist and Puritan

  11. Long Poems • Narrative (epic): • Paradise Lost (1665/ 1667) • Paradise Regained(1671) • Dramatic: Samson Agonistes(1671) • O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, • Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse • Without all hope of day!

  12. Famous Sonnets • Italian sonnet (Petrarchan Sonnet) / an octave(8 lines) /the rhyme pattern abbaabba / a sestet (6 lines) /various rhyme patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd etc. • Shakespearean sonnet/ three quatrains / a concluding couplet

  13. Famous Sonnets • On His Blindness (1655 ) • On His Deceased Wife (1658)

  14. Collection • Questions?

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