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john donne poetry Flashcards

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The Good Morrow

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  • Possibly about Anne More
  • D wonders how he survived w/o her
  • They’re now intertwined
  • Their relationship can’t die if they’re equally invested
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Song: go and catch a falling star

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  • Misogynistic undertones
  • All the women he knows are scheming
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The Sun Rising

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  • Celebratory
  • Possible about A.M.
  • A.M. is Donne’s world
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The Canonization

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  • J.D. + A.M. are saints in love
  • They stand against adversity
  • Their relationship will transcend time
  • They’ll be remembered through art+history
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Song: sweetest love do not go

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  • J.D is about to go on a journey + is assuring A.M. this he will be back
  • By her being upset, it makes him upset
  • He feels like he is dying
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Air and Angels

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  • J.D. feels like he hasn’t met his soulmate yet but soon will
  • Platonic ideas
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The Anniversary

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  • Poss. anniversary of J.D. + A.M
  • When they die, their love will only get stronger + will transcend death
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Twickenam Garden

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  • Self pity
  • The garden is dead like how he feels
  • Unrequited love
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Love’s Exchange

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  • He gave his life to his love + got nth back
  • Cupid manipulated him - cupid is selfish
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A Valediction of Weeping

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  • J.D is leaving A.M. to travel
  • They’re both crying + drowning in their tears
  • Their tears are spherical like the world
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Love’s Alchemy

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  • Compares the search for love with the search for life’s elixir
  • Both are impossible
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A Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day

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  • In response to someones death
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The Apparition

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  • Imagines that after he dies, he will come back to haunt the woman
  • She will call to her new lover for help but he will pretend to be asleep
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

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  • A.M. is worried that smth bad will happen when J.D. travels
  • J.D. says their love is so strong that they’ll be okay
  • She is the fixed foot on a compass to which he will return
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The Ecstasy

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  • A couple stare into each others eyes
  • Their souls meet outside their body + create harmony
  • They stay like that all day
  • Then their souls return back
  • Physical connection allows a spiritual connection
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Love’s Deity

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  • Courtly (unrequited) love
  • Cupids fault - cupid is brutal by putting ppl tog who don’t belong tog
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The Blossom

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  • Smth beautiful breaks
  • A woman in’t interested in the heart alone
  • Courtly (unrequited) love
  • He will be healthiest away from her + give his heart to sm1 who will love it
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The Relic

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  • Worried that J.D. + his love won’t be reunited after death
  • Hopes they’ll be reunited on judgement day
  • Miracle that J.D. + A.M. met when everything was against them
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The Dissolution

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  • After Anne More’s death
  • The pain of living w/o her will kill him
  • He will live a long life w fire in his soul - anger?
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Farewell to Love

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  • Cynical view on love
  • He respected cupid
  • He’s no longer got faith in love
  • Petrarchan (unrequited) love
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Elegy: Change

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  • Women’s beauty attracts eyes of anyone
  • But many men pursue one woman + so she may have multiple partners
  • He doesn’t want to look desperate
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Elegy: His Picture

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  • J.D going too fight in Cadith + gave picture to A.M.
  • He may come back dishevelled + she’ll get other suitors but rebuke them
  • Just bc he’ll look diff, doesn’t mean he won’t love her any less
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Elegy: The Comparison

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  • Compares his love to sm1 else’s
    • she isn’t as appealing - lacks facial harmony
  • Him + his bl worship each other like turtle doves
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Elegy: The Autumnal

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  • Secular relationship
  • Beauty soon decays but his love for her won’t
  • Would rather spend a day w an older person than a younger person
  • Cynical tone change towards end
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Elegy: To His Mistress Going to Bed

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  • Trying to convince a woman to sleep w him
  • Agressive + impatient
  • Tone change in middle - respect
  • Tone change to lust again
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Holy Sonnet III

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  • Wants to go back + change his emotional state
  • Enduring his previous emotional state was sinful
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Holy Sonnet V

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  • Views himself as a creation of God
  • His sins betrayed his body + soul
  • Asks God to purge him
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Holy Sonnet VI

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  • His death will be like the final scene in a play
  • Death will sep. his soul + body
  • Wants to be parted from sin + evil + leave the physical world
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Holy Sonnet XI

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  • Depicts God as being unfair
  • Asking why hes damned when other evil things escape
  • Calling God to forget his sins
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Holy Sonnet X

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  • Diminishing death
  • Death isn’t the end
  • Death isn’t the decider so why is it so arrogant
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Holy Sonnet XI

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  • Thinks he deserves to be crucified
  • Committed so many sins that even death won’t make up for it
  • Christ did no wrong + was killed but Donne’s committed so many sins + hasn’t been punished
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Holy Sonnet XIII

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  • Picture in his heart of Christ being crucified
  • Christ was too kind to judge
  • If its judgement day, he wants God to know he’s devoted
  • Misdevotion to secular woman rather than devoted women
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Holy Sonnet XIV

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  • Asking to be punished for his sins
  • Asks God to remake him
  • Taken over by sin
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Holy Sonnet XVII

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  • Written shortly after Anne’s death
  • Untimely death
  • Worried that his love will turn away from God to saints + angels
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Holy Sonnet XIX

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  • Feels like hes fluctuating between dev to God + being immoral
  • Some days he cares about God, others he doesn’t
  • Yesterday he committed sins
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Goodfriday, 1613 Riding Westward

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  • Speaker turns his back on the east, to the rising sun, to the crucified Christ, God
  • Turned towards spiritual side of life
  • Devotion to God should revolve around Mans soul but in reality business + pleasure revolved
  • He deserves punishment
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Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness

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  • Reflecting on life’s choices
  • Compares body to map - doctors reading his fate?
  • Confidence in belief in the afterlife
  • We have eternal life as a result of Christ’s devotion
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A Hymn to God the Father

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  • Asking for sins to be forgiven
  • He’s committed so many that they might not all be forgiven
  • Still wants the sun to shine after his death

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