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The Relique

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‘A bracelet of bright hair about the bone’

Cf Prufrock ‘arms that are braceleted and white and bare (but in the lamplight downed with light brown hair)’

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Andrew Marvell- at my back

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‘But at my back I always hear / Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near’

Eliot reverses in WL: ‘but at my back in a cold blast I hear / The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear’

‘But at my back from time to time I hear’

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Misogynist quote from love’s alchemy

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‘Hope not for mind in women; at their best / sweetnesse and wit’

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Donne’s attitude to women shifts so quickly within a single poem or line that it is

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Impossible to identify Donne’s abiding view of women

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His poems use women as a revolutionary device; he describes the actual intimacy…

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The escalated ‘mutual feeling’ that embodies an unprecedented ‘dialogue of one’ (the extasie)

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Gender as no longer a power construct…

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‘Forget the Hee and Shee’

Women like men have ‘two lips, eyes , thighs’

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Come, Madam Come summary

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Poet’s ‘masculine pervasive force’
Imperialistic tone
Charged with Oviduan dynamism and lust, makes his lover undress verbally, casting himself as ruler and the lady his occupied terrain

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What does Carey interpret his fear of infidelity to be ?

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Sparked by his apostasy

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How does Nicolson understand his obsession with mutability to be

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To concern the paradigm alterations he was living through

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Love’s Growth

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Donne aware of human love as controlled by biology, ‘working vigour’

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Elegy 5 - asserts (male?) fantasies of sexual liberty

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The paranoid speaker rails against his mistress, fearing that she, like ‘foxes and goats’ will ‘change’ lovers. But by end he refuses ‘captivitie’ of monogamy, embraces serial polygamy of the river which ‘kisses’ one banke and the next

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Jet Ring Sent summary

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Spurned lover and fashionable female’s love is mediated by rejected circlet that talks. Fears over fidelity and cuckoldry (circulation of rings - merchant of Venice)

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Jet ring sent central conceit

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‘Thou art not so black, as my heart / nor half so brittle, as her heart, Thou art’

  • ring resembles their hearts
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In what poems does Donne question representation himself?

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Elegy: the bracelet
The token

  • conflict between harmony aesthetic metaphor implies and dissonant reality ‘Hope not for mind in women; at their best / sweetnesse and wit’
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Donne’s metaphors…

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Disrupt, jar and jam the harmony of the poem in order to gain new coherence and insight

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His frustrated attitude to women highlighted in…

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‘The comparison’ and ‘nature’s lay idiot’s scathing diatribes

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Sea

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Donne fears women ‘receive’ several partners, like the ‘sea’ which ‘receives the rhene, Volgo, and Po’

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Donne focus on bodily fluids

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‘Ranke sweaty froth thy Mistress brow defiles, / like spermatique issue of ripe menstrous boiles’

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What can’t he grasp (& gain more than sweat?)

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That ‘cherishing heat’ of his mistress’s ‘best lov’d part’

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‘Come, Madam Come’ quote one

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‘Licence my roaving hands, and let them go / Before, behind, between, above, below. / O my America! My Newfoundland!

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‘Come Madam Come’ quote 2 - image of overwhelming imperial colonisation

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‘My kingdome, safeliest when one man’d, my myne of precious stones, my emperie’

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‘Before, behind, between, above, below’

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Outpouring of prepositions in rapid rhythmic succession + sense Donne discards rule of grammar implies a loss of control + excitement - mars with militaristic dominating tone. Dichotomy between cold reason and passion - inviting, irresistible and harmonious rhetoric battling with and constrained by the mathematical desire to control’

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The Comparison - intimate and insentient

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He fuses fire, molten metal, scratchy burnt ‘grass’ for pubic hair and the ‘dread mouth of a fried gunne’ with sex - the intimate and the insentient become irrevocably ties together

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‘Before behind between above below’ mirror neurones

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Addresses his mistress to let him move his hands across her undressed body, but also the imagined who is solicited to make picture of Donne’s hand move - sense of movement achieved by sequence of five stills, five locations of woman’s body

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O My America

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Confirms and alerts us, he says thanks for doing that. Conditioned by female principle of authority.

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‘Thy Donne’s and haired may no man equal call, /

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For as thy sinnes increase, thy haires do fall’

  • wordplay in genesis of venereal diseases & consequences, punning on hair, heirs, possibly whores
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The comparison - focus on women in all their corporeality

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‘Sweat drops on my mistress breast’ seem ‘pearls’ necklaces (contrast with ur mistress’ ‘ranke sweaty frothe) - subjectivity; one man’s lust another man’s loathing

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Why was Donne’s celebration of erotic love as transcendent /spiritual revolutionary?

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Not only in its anti-institutionalised, but bc it opposed long-standing Christian tradition that distrusted the body and sexuality

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Donne pushes classical characteristic of women in Petrarchan poetry as far as they can go

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So they become a form of reaction and rebellion against the prevailing gender paradigm of the time

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How did CS Lewis slate it?

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‘Hot eyed, inescapable’ ‘worst kind of boredom’

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Donne’s power is words…

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He wields this power quite exquisitely and abhorrently… appealing to what makes us human in prophetic role as both caveman and craftsman

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What anxiety did Donne face

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  1. Persecuted religious beliefs & subsequent apostasy
  2. secret marriage to Anne more
  3. Paradigm shifts in world around him
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His world, shaped by medieval scholasticism and seemingly secure in its physical and spiritual boundaries, was entirely restructured by…

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The discoveries of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo

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The Anniversary

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Practically unintelligible except in light of the sense of uprooting by the New Sciences:

‘And new philosophy calls all in doubt,’

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‘And new philosophy calls all in doubt, / the element of fire is quite put out;

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The sun is lost, and th’earth, and no man’s wit… when in the planets, and the firmament… ‘tis all In peeces, all cones range gone’

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the Sunny Rising - solar imagery and metaphors for love AUBADE

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Strong connections between love and sun synaptic connections unsurprising given heliocentric revolution in astronomy in Donne’s era

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Donne mind persistently torn between…

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Bodily pleasures as rakish youth; religious desires he later fulfilled as Dean of St Paul’s

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The Extasie

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He argues the body and sex are the medium for the union of the souls. Relates the superficial to the profound through elevating their ‘soul’s language’ & ‘diologue’ into material

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Homoerotic sonnets to god

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Begs god to ‘ravish’ him and to ‘batter my heart’

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aire and angels - material souls ‘flow’

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‘Love must… take a body’ (bodily vehicle of the metaphor)

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The Sunne Rising tone

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Impertinent, questioning tone addresses ‘busie old foole’ ‘Saachi pedantique wretch’

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Poems organised around a moment…

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T Doherty called ‘the revolutionary present’ lodged between an imagined future and a posited last

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Contraction in the sunne rising

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Contracts earth to ‘the nuclear couple’ making love ‘all” and ‘nothing else is’. Personification reduces sun to human size while speaker grows in inverse proportion to the heavenly body he eclipses.

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The Extasie Pastoral

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Frustrates higher ideas ‘Extasie’ implies - superficial simplicity of ‘locus amoenus’ setting w ‘it’s pregnant bank’ and ‘violets reclining’

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Jonathan Post on Donne

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His voice is ‘irremediably Donne’ - manifold registers and tones

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Word flow to Donne is a testimony of life

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‘It’s a desperate state, to be speechlesse.’

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T.S Eliot on Donne

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One of the last poets to feel his thought

‘Tennyson and Brownjng are poets and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose’

Donne’s poetry as Therapy - ‘countering the dissociation of sensibility’ which has ‘marred the poetic consciousness of everyone since Milton and Dryden’

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What does his poems daringly question?

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‘’You didn’t think I could fit this al in one poem, did you?’

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