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POETRY-1 (ENG403)

POETRY-1 (ENG403). LECTURE – 26. RECAP OF LECTURE 25. Love Songs Go and Catch a Falling Star Love’s Alchemy The Sun Rising A Valediction: Of Weeping Holy Sonnets. SONNET. Derived from Italian “Sonetto” Meaning “little song” A poem that is written in a specific format

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POETRY-1 (ENG403)

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  1. POETRY-1 (ENG403) LECTURE – 26

  2. RECAP OF LECTURE 25 • Love Songs • Go and Catch a Falling Star • Love’s Alchemy • The Sun Rising • A Valediction: Of Weeping • Holy Sonnets

  3. SONNET • Derived from Italian “Sonetto” • Meaning “little song” • A poem that is written in a specific format • Consists of 14 Lines • Rhyme Scheme • Iambic Pentameter • 4 Quatrains

  4. TYPES OF SONNETS • Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet • a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a, c-d-c-d, e-e • Shakespearean Sonnet (English) • a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g • Spenserian Sonnet • a-b-a-b, b-c-b-c, c-d-c-d, e-e

  5. PARTS OF A SONNET • Octave (Lines 1-8) • Problem, conflict, question • Sestet (Lines 9-14) • Resolution, conclusion

  6. DONNE’S POETRY • Love poetry • Holy Sonnets

  7. JOHN DONNE • Religious Poetry- Divine Poems • Holy Sonnets- 19 • Love Poetry- 1590 • Religious Poetry- 1609-1611 • Published(1633) • Love Songs and Sonnets

  8. HOLY SONNETS • Dramatic • Argumentative Tone • May or may not be biographical • Contemplation on religious conviction • Themes • Divine Judgment • Divine Love • modest penance

  9. COMPARISON OF LOVE SONGS & HOLY SONNETS • Love Songs • Fervor • Emotions • Wit • Compassion • Holy Sonnets • Personal • Passionate • Forceful • Assertive • Fearful/apprehensive

  10. SETTING & CHARACTER IN HOLY SONNET • Setting • Not a specific place • A moment • Significant to the speaker • Character • God • Angels • Christ • Death • His own soul

  11. THEMES OF HOLY SONNETS • Religious in Nature • Sin • Grace • Salvation

  12. REVIEW OF LECTURE 25 • Thou Hast Made Me • I am a Little World Made Cunningly • If poisonous minerals, and if that tree • Death, Be Not Proud

  13. HOLY SONNET 9 • “If poisonous minerals, and if that tree” • Tree- The Tree of Knowledge in Heaven

  14. If poisonous minerals, and if that tree Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned, alas, why should I be? Why should intent or reason, born in me, Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous? And mercy being easy and glorious To God, in his stern wrath why threatens he? But who am I, that dare dispute with thee, O God? Oh! of thine only worthy blood, And my tears, make a heavenly Letheanflood, And drown in it my sins' black memory. That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy if thou wilt forget.

  15. If poisonous minerals, and if that tree • 14 Lines • Mixture: Petrarchan & Shakespearean Sonnet • 3 Quatrains & a Couplet • Rhyme Scheme: abba abba acca dd • Addresses God • Tree- forbidden tree in Heaven

  16. If poisonous minerals, and if that tree Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned, alas, why should I be? • Tree- tree of knowledge in Heaven • Lecherous- lust

  17. Why should intent or reason, born in me, Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous? And mercy being easy and glorious To God, in his stern wrath why threatens he? • Heinous- terrible • Stern- uncompromising • Wrath- anger

  18. But who am I, that dare dispute with thee, O God? Oh! of thine only worthy blood, And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood, And drown in it my sins' black memory. • Black- bad • Lethean flood- request for forgiveness, in mythology, the river Lethe caused total forgetfulness. • sin's black memory- the speaker's sins have left a bad mark on God's memory.

  19. That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy if thou wilt forget. • Debt- liability

  20. HOLY SONNET 10 • "Death be not proud, though some have called thee” • Addresses death

  21. Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. 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. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shaltdie

  22. DEATH BE NOT PROUD, THOUGH SOME HAVE CALLED THEE • 14 Lines • Mixture: Petrarchan & Shakespearean Sonnet • 3 Quatrains & a Couplet • Rhyme Scheme: abba abba cddc ee

  23. Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. • Personification of Death

  24. 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. • Comparison of death to sleep

  25. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? • Its dependence on others • Comparison with tranquilizer & magic

  26. One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die • Death as mortal being

  27. REVIEW OF LECTURE 26 • If poisonous minerals, and if that tree • Death, Be Not Proud

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