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The Canonization

The Canonization. The Canonization. T oday’s lesson’s aims: Consolidate strategies for textual analysis (Wednesday’s lesson) Consolidate understanding of ‘metaphysical conceit.’. The Canonization. In pairs or small groups, come up with answers to the following:

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The Canonization

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  1. The Canonization

  2. The Canonization Today’s lesson’s aims: • Consolidate strategies for textual analysis (Wednesday’s lesson) • Consolidate understanding of ‘metaphysical conceit.’

  3. The Canonization In pairs or small groups, come up with answers to the following: • Identify narrative voice(s) (and to whom they speak) • What is the situation (i.e. what is happening in each stanza) • What do you notice about structure (verse form, meter, rhyme scheme; look to your handout on prosody)

  4. The Canonization In pairs or small groups, come up with answers to the following: • Identify narrative voice(s) • Speaker – talking to an addressee; male • Petitioners from some future time – praying to the sainted lovers.

  5. The Canonization In pairs or small groups, come up with answers to the following: 2. What is the situation (i.e. what is happening)? 1. The speaker commands his audience to shut up and stop criticizing the speaker’s love. He (certainly a male audience) should either criticize the speaker’s other shortcomings (aging, illnesses) or look to his own situation – his career, position at courtwith nobles, high-powered churchmen, his wealth. Just stop criticizing his love.

  6. The Canonization In pairs or small groups, come up with answers to the following: 2. What is the situation (i.e. what is happening)? 2. The speaker maintains that his love has not harmed anyone, indeed the world proceeds as it should despite his love. 3. The speaker believes it doesn’t matter what the addressee calls them (implying name calling?). No matter. As the lovers are made by love, they can be anything.

  7. The Canonization In pairs or small groups, come up with answers to the following: 2. What is the situation (i.e. what is happening)? 4. If the lovers are not allowed to live and love, this doesn’t matter because they can die, be together and become immortal through verse. 5. These poems will prompt the lovers to be canonized – admitted to the body of saints in heaven – and future lovers will ask for intercession in matters of love. In this future, the lovers will not be criticized but canonized for their love, made saints. This is a radical idea, one that plays with Catholic notions of holiness and sainthood.

  8. The Canonization In pairs or small groups, come up with answers to the following: 3. What do you notice about structure (verse form, meter, rhyme scheme; look to your handout on prosody) Rhyme: abbacccaa quatrain triplet couplet Rhyme scheme regular throughout – reflects the harmony of the lovers. Indeed, first and last line end with ‘love’.

  9. The Canonization In pairs or small groups, come up with answers to the following: 3. What do you notice about structure (verse form, meter, rhyme scheme; look to your handout on prosody) Rhythm – iambic iambic pentameter in first, third fourth and seventh Iambic tetrameter in the others Effect of metrical variation? It is more conversational. (His contemporary, Ben Johnson, said Donne should be hung for the liberties taken with the rhythmic conventions of the day)

  10. Metaphysical Conceits Fanciful extended comparisons used to explore an idea or theme using unusual analogies, from the far-fetched to the everyday object. Typical areas used for conceits include: • religion • philosophy • mythology • meteorology • geography • government

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