This document provides an overview of metaphysical poetry, including its key characteristics and notable poets from the 17th century in England. Metaphysical poetry is defined by its use of wit, unconventional or surprising imagery, and argumentative structure. Poets like John Donne, George Herbert, and Andrew Marvell wrote poems on spiritual or intellectual topics using devices like paradoxes, puns, and extended metaphors known as conceits.
The Good-Morrow by John Donne: Analysis. The Good-Morrow, by John Donne, chiefly deals with a love that advances further from lusty love to the spiritual love.The poem makes use of biblical and Catholic writings, indirectly referencing the legend of the Seven Sleepers and Paul the Apostle's description of divine, agapic love – two concepts with which, as a practicing Catholic, Donne would have been familiar.
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Prothalamion by E. Spenser, a spausal verse a poem of elizabethan era - piyu...piyush prashant
prothalmion by Edmund spenser
a rare poem
Prothalamion, the commonly used name of Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset,[1] is a poem by Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), one of the important poets of the Tudor Period in England. Published in 1596[1] (see 1596 in poetry), it is a nuptial song that he composed that year on the occasion of the twin marriage of the daughters of the Earl of Worcester; Elizabeth Somerset and Katherine Somerset.
Prothalamion is written in the conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a description of the River Thames where Spenser finds two beautiful maidens. The poet proceeds to praise them and wishing them all the blessings for their marriages. The poem begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem. "Calm was the day and through the trembling air/The sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play." The poet is standing near the Thames River and finds a group of nymphs with baskets collecting flowers for the new brides. The poet tells us that they are happily making the bridal crowns for Elizabeth and Katherine. He goes on his poem describing two swans at the Thames, relating it to the myth of Jove and Leda. According to the myth, Jove falls in love with Leda and comes to court her in the guise of a beautiful swan. The poet feels that the Thames has done justice to his nuptial song by "flowing softly" according to his request: "Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song." The poem is often grouped with Spenser's poem about his own marriage, the Epithalamion.
The Good-Morrow by John Donne: Analysis. The Good-Morrow, by John Donne, chiefly deals with a love that advances further from lusty love to the spiritual love.The poem makes use of biblical and Catholic writings, indirectly referencing the legend of the Seven Sleepers and Paul the Apostle's description of divine, agapic love – two concepts with which, as a practicing Catholic, Donne would have been familiar.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his life and works
Prepared by Ahmad Hussain, Department of English,
Abdul Wali khan University Mardan.
Email: mr.literature123@gmail.com
Facebook page link for Literary students: www.facebook.com/englitpearls
Prothalamion by E. Spenser, a spausal verse a poem of elizabethan era - piyu...piyush prashant
prothalmion by Edmund spenser
a rare poem
Prothalamion, the commonly used name of Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset,[1] is a poem by Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), one of the important poets of the Tudor Period in England. Published in 1596[1] (see 1596 in poetry), it is a nuptial song that he composed that year on the occasion of the twin marriage of the daughters of the Earl of Worcester; Elizabeth Somerset and Katherine Somerset.
Prothalamion is written in the conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a description of the River Thames where Spenser finds two beautiful maidens. The poet proceeds to praise them and wishing them all the blessings for their marriages. The poem begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem. "Calm was the day and through the trembling air/The sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play." The poet is standing near the Thames River and finds a group of nymphs with baskets collecting flowers for the new brides. The poet tells us that they are happily making the bridal crowns for Elizabeth and Katherine. He goes on his poem describing two swans at the Thames, relating it to the myth of Jove and Leda. According to the myth, Jove falls in love with Leda and comes to court her in the guise of a beautiful swan. The poet feels that the Thames has done justice to his nuptial song by "flowing softly" according to his request: "Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song." The poem is often grouped with Spenser's poem about his own marriage, the Epithalamion.
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:-“Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S.” was a lampoon by John Dryden against the poet laureate Thomas Shadwell who superseded him in 1669.
Mac means ‘son of’. So, MacFlecknoe means ‘Son of Flecknoe’, while the word ‘True-Blew’ means an extreme ‘Whig Blue’ which was the colour of the Tories.
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HERE I AM SHARING MY PRESENTATION OF MY M.A COURSE AS MY ACADEMIC WORK.I AM SUBMITTING THIS PRESENTATION TO DR. DILIP BARAD , SMT.S.B. GARDI DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MKBU
:-“Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S.” was a lampoon by John Dryden against the poet laureate Thomas Shadwell who superseded him in 1669.
Mac means ‘son of’. So, MacFlecknoe means ‘Son of Flecknoe’, while the word ‘True-Blew’ means an extreme ‘Whig Blue’ which was the colour of the Tories.
Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600 – 1678) was an English dramatist and poet. His works were praised by some critics and derided by others. Why John Dryden used his name to ridicule and satirize Thomas Shadwell, his contemporary and one time friend who later became an enemy, is not clear. Flecknoe was a minor poet having religious inclinations and most of his writings were private writings. So, Dryden calling him ‘the monarch of absolute nonsense’ was similar to Iago’s ‘motive hunting of a motiveless malignity’. Thomas Shadwell was called the ‘son and successor’ of Flecknoe’.
This is a slideshare with MULTIPLE slides from various powerpoints found on the internet with some of mine added. You can find them by putting the word you want with powerpoint after.
Literary Theory and Criticism
By Belachew Weldegebriel
Jimma University
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Department of English Language and Literature
Henrik Ibsen was born to Knud Ibsen and Marichen
Altenburg, a relatively well-to-do merchant family, in the
small port town of Skien, Norway.
He was a descendant of some of the oldest and most
distinguished families of Norway, including the Paus family.
Shortly after his birth his family's fortunes became very bad.
Aristotle's Poetics c. 335 BCE is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory
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2. concerned with the fundamental
problems of the nature of the
universe and man’s function or
place in life
Meaning of Metaphysical
Metaphysical poetry
METAPHYSICAL
3. Metaphysical poetry was written in the
17th century by British poets. These
poets did not term themselves
“metaphysical poets;” the name came
much later as Samuel Johnson
attempted to classify the type of
poetry that came from this period.
4. Rejected the classic Elizabethan style
Elizabethan Metaphysical
• Ornamental diction
• Natural imagery
• Heartfelt emotion
• Regular meter
• Love and nature
• Plain diction
• Unusual imagery
• With and intellect
• Irregular meter
• Faith and death
5. Metaphysical Poets
• John Donne
• George Herbert
• Henry Vaughan
• Andrew Marvell
Wrote on contrary subjects and points of view
6. What is a metaphysical poem?
• They are brief but intense meditations, characterized by use
of intellect, wit, irony and wordplay.
• Uses reason and argument.
• Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, meter and stanza)
is the underlying (and often hardly less formal) structure
of the poem's argument.
Typical Themes
• Love
• War
• Honor
• Courtly
Behavior
Main Philosophy: Carpe diem
7. METAPHYSICAL POETRY - QUALITIES
The Metaphysical poets are obviously not the only poets
to deal with these subject matters, so here are some
qualities that define the movement:
Poems presented in the form of an argument
Approbation of wit
Use of ordinary speech mixed with puns
Use of scientific terminology
Paradoxes and Conceits
8. METAPHYSICAL POETRY - THE CONCEIT
A conceit is an extended, exaggerated metaphor that
makes a complex or very surprising comparison.
Example:
“Thou counterfeit’st a bark, a sea, a wind;
For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy
body is,
Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy
sighs;
Who, raging with thy tears, and they with
them,
Without a sudden calm, will overset
Thy tempest-tossed body.”
Here Romeo compares Juliet to a boat in a storm. The
comparison is an extended metaphor in which he
9. Forrest Gump
Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna
get.
• How is this conceit?
• What is unusual about the comparison?
• How can it be considered “extended?”
10. Firework
Katy Perry
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting thought the wind
Wanting to start again
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in
Do you ever feel already buried deep
Six feet under scream
But no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there's still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in you
You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July
'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down down down
You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew…
11. Firework
Katy Perry
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting thought the wind
Wanting to start again
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in
Do you ever feel already buried deep
Six feet under scream
But no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there's still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in you
You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July
'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down down down
You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew…
12. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.
We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility -
• The entire poem is an extended conceit.
Dickinson is using a carriage ride to
describe a person dying,
• Dickinson describes the slowness of old age
through the slowness of the carriage.
• She also showcases death like the setting of
the sun.
• The poem ends with the carriage stopping
at a house, which is "a'swelling in the
ground," or their grave.
13. The Flea John Donne
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 marriage bed, and marriage
temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you,
w'are met,
And cloistered in these living walls of
jet.
Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deny’st me
is;
The entire poem uses a flea bite as a way
to talk a lover into a sexual relationship.
Donne uses creative and complex
analogies to compare their sexual
merger to the bite of a flea.
In addition, he argues that since
their blood already mixed
in the flea, they are
already connected.
It sucked me first, and
now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two
bloods mingled be;
Thou know’st that this
cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss
of maidenhead;
14. Assignment
• Write your own conceit.
• Choose a topic below and write a
conceit making an unusual comparison
• Include a 3-4 line extension describing
the comparison.
• Do not simply explain the metaphor.
15. Jon Donne (1572-1631)
Considered one of the most significant metaphysical poets of his time
• Colloquialism
FOR God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love ;
• Brevity
And swear
Nowhere
Lives a woman true, and fair.
• Questions – or interrogatives ‘
I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved. Were we not wean'd till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the ’seven sleepers' den?
The accumulative nature of the questions here enacts the
whirring of an imagination made ‘childishly’ excited by the power
of love.
• Eclectic and Obscure
Most of the poems of John Donne are so obscure and ambiguous that a common
reader cannot grasp the meaning of a single line. This obscurity and ambiguity has
led him to be regarded as the most difficult poet to be understood.
16. George Herbert (1593-1633)
• Follower of Jon Donne
• Differences
simplicity of diction and metaphor
poetic works devoted to God
less intellectual, more earnest
Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot,
Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.
17. Andrew Marvell
• Cavalier (light-hearted) attitude
• Intellectually witty tone
• Fusion of thought and feeling
• Colloquial & argumentative
• Philosophic & reflective
No white nor red was ever seen
So am’rous as this lovely green.
Fond lovers, cruel as their flame,
Cut in these trees their mistress’ name;
Little, alas, they know or heed
How far these beauties hers exceed!
Fair trees! wheres’e’er your barks I wound,
No name shall but your own be found.
18. “To His Coy Mistress”
Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which
way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your
heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
19. “To His Coy Mistress”
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying
near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms
shall try
That long-preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to
dust,
And into ashes all my lust;
The grave’s a fine and private
place,
But none, I think, do there
embrace.
20. “To His Coy Mistress”
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped
power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough
strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our
sun
Stand still, yet we will make him
run.
21. “To His Coy Mistress”
• Entire poem written in couplets
Two lines of rhymed poetry
• Uses iambic tetrameter
eight syllables per line
• Uses enjambment
running on of a thought from one line to
the next
• Divided into three (3) primary sections indicated by
indentations
• Each section is basically part of an argument (or
claim)
1. Claim
2. Counterclaim
3. Conclusion
22. Annotation #1:
1. Read through the poem quickly
2. Define the following words (and any additional
words you do not understand):
• vaster
• quaint
• transpire
• Ganges
• Humber
• coy
• amorous
• devour
• languish
3. Read the poem again more thoroughly.
4. Highlight the following phrases and try to
determine what they mean or reference:
• “before the Flood”
• “this state”
• “Time’s winged
Chariot”
• “marble vault”
• “worms...”
• “vegetable love”
23. Annotation #2: (Group)
In Marvell’s poem, To His Coy Mistress, the
speaker tries to persuade his mistress to yield
to his sexual advances. It is broken up into
three (3) main arguments.
Reread the poem more thoroughly, and label
each of the three (3) sections:
• Claim
• Counterclaim
• Conclusion
Next to each section, briefly explain the speaker’s
argument to the woman.