donne critics Flashcards
what does Ilona bell say about donnes changing opinion
“his attitudes towards women shift so quickly, sometimes within a single poem or line that it is difficult to say exactly what donne himself thought”
what does ilona bell say about how donne challenges and echoes gender stereotypes
“donnes poetry is obsessed with wome. it both echoes and challenges the gender stereotypes of his day”
what does john carey say about death being central
donne gives death an active role in his poetry
what does catherine ginelli martin say abut to his mistress being negative
the speakers purpose in this poem is at once objectifying, shaming and figuratively raping his “new-found-land”
what does catherine ginelli martin say about to his mistress focusing on the man not the woman
the person exposed in the poem is not the woman but the aroused man
what does camille paglia say about religion sex and art
art, sex and religion are often startingly intertwined
what two words does anthony easthope use to describe to his mistress
male narcissism
what does shaw say about the vulnerability of donnes work
a shiver of vulnerability in everything he writes
what does lewalski say about salvation in the holy sonnets
finding the whole of salvation traced in ones own soul
what does c.s lewis say about the puzzles of donnes work
there are puzzles in his work but we can solve them all if we are clever enough
what does guibbory say about emotional experience producing contradiction
for donne the process of examining emotional experience inevitably produces poetry of contradiction
what does john wall say about despair and hope
his despair is never without a move towards hope; his hpe never without a move towards despair
what does bus say about two worlds
wandering between two worlds
what does johnson say about the imitation of nature and life
imitating neither nature nor life
what does davies say about convention
he attacks convention
