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POETRY-1 (ENG403)

POETRY-1 (ENG403). LECTURE – 23. RECAP OF LECTURE 22. John Donne- representative metaphysical poet Love songs, hymns, elegies, holy sonnets George Herbert Richard Crashaw Henry Vaughan. CHARACTERISTICS OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY. Dazzling wordplay Explicitly sexual Paradox

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POETRY-1 (ENG403)

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  1. POETRY-1 (ENG403) LECTURE – 23

  2. RECAP OF LECTURE 22 • John Donne- representative metaphysical poet • Love songs, hymns, elegies, holy sonnets • George Herbert • Richard Crashaw • Henry Vaughan

  3. CHARACTERISTICS OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY • Dazzling wordplay • Explicitly sexual • Paradox • Subtle argumentation • Surprising contrasts • Intricate psychological analysis

  4. CHARACTERISTICS OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY • Striking imagery • Far fetched ideas. • Full of logic & reasoning. • Heterogeneous ideas are combined. • Theme like love is experimented like science

  5. PROSE WORKS • Juvenilia, or Certaine Pradoxes and Problemes • Catalogus Librorum Aulicorum • Biathanatos • Pseudo-Martyr • Conclave Ignati • Essays in Divinity • Three Sermons, Four Sermons, Five Sermons, Fifty Sermons, and Letters to Several Persons of Honour. • Essays: satirical

  6. DONNE’S POETRY • Secular & Religious Subjects • Contrast to the Petrarchan love-doctrine of his time. • He wrote: • Songs • Sonnets • Divine poems • Elegies • Satires • Verse letters • Historical epistles etc.

  7. DONNE’S SERMONS • 160 Sermons • Memorable • Biblical passages • Theme of divine love • Decay & resurrection of the body

  8. CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS POETRY • His poetical works: • Unsurpassable • Tedious/weird • Wire-drawn in their logic • Typical of cross-grained • Mathematical imaginary • Unconventional analogies and comparisons

  9. IMAGERY • The images: • Circles • Maps • Engravings • Elephants • Flea • Whales • New discoveries etc.

  10. ELEMENTS OF HUMANISM • Hunger for knowledge • Thirst for unraveling the mystery of Existence • The search of truth • Attitude to Love • Treatment of Love is unconventional

  11. INTELLECTUAL GENIUS OF DONNE • Differed from Elizabethan love poetry • Rejects the lofty cult of women • No deity/goddess • Challenged the conventions • True love: merger of souls • Two bodies, one soul

  12. THEMES • Lovers as Microcosm • Neoplatonic Concept of Love • Religious Enlightenment as physical delight • Quest for one true religion

  13. MOTIF/IMAGES • Spheres • Infinite associations • Conceits • Thematic connections • Discovery & Conquest • Mystery • Magnificence • Reflections • Eyes • tears

  14. LOVE SONGS • Go and Catch a Falling Star • Love’s Alchemy

  15. TITLE OF THE POEM • Go and Catch a Falling Star • Imperative • Element of Impossibility

  16. STANZA 1 • GO and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who cleft the devil's foot,Teach me to hear mermaidssinging,Or to keep off envy's stinging,And findWhat wind Serves to advance an honest mind.

  17. STANZA 2 • If thou be'st born to strange sights,Things invisible to see,Ride ten thousand days and nights,Till age snow white hairs on thee,Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,All strange wonders that befell thee,And swear,No whereLives a woman true and fair.

  18. STANZA 3 • If thou find'st one, let me know,Such a pilgrimage were sweet;Yet do not, I would not go,Though at next door we might meet,Though she were true, when you met her,And last, till you write your letter,Yet sheWill beFalse, ere I come, to two, or three.

  19. ANALYSIS OF POEM • 3 Stanzas • Introduction • Climax • Falling action • Conclusion • Rhyme Scheme • ABABCCDDD

  20. TONE OF THE POEM • Magical • Harsh and cruel • Bitter & resentful • Self-pitying • Irritable • Mocking • commanding • Hopeful & caring • Sour

  21. IMAGERY OF POEM • ‘a falling star’ • ‘mermaids singing’ • Knowing past • Explaining devil’s hoof • ‘Ride ten thousand days and nights,Till age snow white hairs on thee’. • ‘Go and catch a falling star’;‘Though she were true, when you met her,…Yet she will be false, ere I come, to two, or three.’

  22. GO and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are, • Pessimistic Attitude • Impossible tasks: • “a falling star” • “conceiving a child with mandrake root” • Imparatives

  23. Or who cleft the devil's foot,Teach me to hear mermaids singing,Or to keep off envy's stinging, And findWhat windServes to advance an honest mind. • Another impossible task • Mermaid- mythological figure

  24. If thou be'st born to strange sights,Things invisible to see,Ride ten thousand days and nights,Till age snow white hairs on thee, • Alliteration • Journey

  25. Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,All strange wonders that befell thee,And swear,No whereLives a woman true and fair. • Woman- true & fair

  26. If thou find'st one, let me know,Such a pilgrimage were sweet;Yet do not, I would not go,Though at next door we might meet,Though she were true, when you met her, • Pilgrimage- holy journey

  27. And last, till you write your letter,Yet sheWill beFalse, ere I come, to two, or three. • Woman- false

  28. TITLE OF THE POEM • LOVE'S ALCHEMY

  29. Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,Say, where his centric happiness doth lie.I have loved, and got, and told,But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,I should not find that hidden mystery. • Mining art • Centric- esential • Hidden mystery- love; philosopher’s stone

  30. O! 'tis imposture all ;And as no chemic yet th' elixir got,But glorifies his pregnant pot,If by the way to him befall • Elixir- give immortlity

  31. Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal,So, lovers dream a rich and long delight,But get a winter-seeming summer's night. • Odoriferous- smell • Oxymoron

  32. Our ease, our thrift, our honour, and our day,Shall we for this vain bubble's shadow pay? • Shadow- useless, deceit

  33. Ends love in this, that my manCan be as happy as I can, if he canEndure the short scorn of a bridegroom's play? • Scorn- contempt

  34. That loving wretch that swears,'Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds,Which he in her angelic finds,Would swear as justly, that he hears,In that day's rude hoarse minstrelsy, the spheres. • Hoarse- ruff

  35. Hope not for mind in women; at their best,Sweetness and wit they are, but mummy, possess'd. • Mummy- stuffed, without intellect

  36. LOVE’S ALCHEMY Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,Say, where his centric happiness doth lie.I have loved, and got, and told,But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,I should not find that hidden mystery. O! 'tis imposture all ;And as no chemic yet th' elixir got,But glorifies his pregnant pot,If by the way to him befall

  37. REVIEW OF LECTURE 23 • Go and Catch a Falling Star • Love’s Alchemy • The Sun Rising • A Valediction: of Weeping

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