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1. Compare and Contrast
between
John Donne and George Herbert

2.  English poet and a cleric in the Church
of England.
 He is considered the pre-eminent
representative of the metaphysical poets.
 Literary movement: Metaphysical poets
 Poems: Death Be Not proud, Holy Sonnets
The Flea, The Canonization, The Ecstasy
more.
Born: January 22, 1572,
London, United Kingdom
Died: March 31, 1631,
London, United kingdom
John Donne

3. Born: April 3, 1593,
Montgomery, United Kingdom
Died: March 1, 1633,
Bemerton, United Kingdom
Education: Trinity College, Cambridge,
Westminster School, University of Cambridge
 Welsh-born English poet, orator
and Anglican priest.
 Herbert's poetry is associated with
the writings of the metaphysical poets.
 He is recognized as "a pivotal figure"
George Herbert

4. Similarities
 George Herbert and John Donne
lived at the same time

5.  Both have been considered
members of a
school of poetry.
“Metaphysical”

6.  Attitude of humility toward God

8. Both poets are use highly memorable and
unusual imagery.
Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,
And cloistered in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that, self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.
Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, nay more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our mariage bed, and marriage temple is;
The Flea
John Donne

9. As nothing but
Thy pow'r doth cut.
Wherefore each part
Of my hard heart
Meets in this frame
To praise thy name.
That if I chance to hold my peace,
These stones to praise thee may not cease.
Oh, let thy blessed SACRIFICE be mine,
And sanctify this ALTAR to be thine.
A broken ALTAR, Lord, thy servant rears,
Made of a heart and cemented with tears;
Whose parts are as thy hand did frame;
No workman's tool hath touch'd the same.
A HEART alone
Is such a stone,
The Altar
George Herbert

10.  Similar in meaning
Batter my heart, three-person'd God
JOHN DONNE

11. The Collar
BY GEORGE
HERBERT

12. Differences

13. Shape Poem

14. The tone
 The tone of Donne’s poems tends to be darker.

15.  By contrast, Herbert’s poems tend to express a
strong sense of assurance about God’s love.

16.  Herbert’s speakers see evidence of God’s presence
practically everywhere in the world.
 On the other hand, Donne’s speakers tend to imagine a
more distant God whose presence and intervention cannot
at all be taken for granted.

17. The striking different in approaches, vocabulary
and emotion.
Holy Sonnet 14
BY JOHN DONNE

19.  Donne expresses his doubts in intellectual
terms, and answers them in the same way.
Doubts and Answer
 Herbert occasionally explores his doubts in
intellectual terms, but answers them with emotion.

20. Using Religious Terms as...
 In some poems John Donne used religious terms as the
title of the poem to ment sexuality.
 George Herbert used religious titles to ment his love
or belive for God.

21. Radicalism
The Canonization
JOHN DONNE
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsy, or my gout,
My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout,
With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,
Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe his honor, or his grace,
Or the king's real, or his stampèd face
Contemplate; what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.
Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?
What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned?
Who says my tears have……………………………….

22.  Herbert wrote for all classes reader or people. Because,
Herbert's lines are simpler and shorter, and we
understand them easily.
Easy Understanding
Easter Wings
GEORGE HERBERT
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
Though foolishly he lost the same,
Decaying more and more,
Till he became
Most poore:

23.  Where Donne wrote for a limited readership. Because
understanding Donne takes effort and concentration.
The Flea
--- JOHN DONNE
Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;

24. The End

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