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    Holy Sonnet

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    5 – Paragraph Poetry Devices Analysis Essay The poem “Holy Sonnet #10” by John Donne is one of the most respected forms of poetry‚ one of the most difficult to compose and one of the most inspirational to read. Donne uses personification‚ metaphor and rhetorical question to demonstrate the deep personal meaning of the poem. Donne writes passionately about his feelings towards death. Donne has decided to include these three literary devices in his poem to create a more dramatic effect for his readers

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    Ben Jonson

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    TCC 1303- 4th 24 April 2013 Ben Jonson & John Donne Throughout life we forced to deal with the emotions and conflicts of religion and death. Many times people tend to express their feelings by turning their emotions and thoughts into great literature or poems. Ben Jonson and John Donne are two great examples of “seventeenth century poets” who have successfully managed turning their feelings into classic well known poems (Greenbelt & Abrams). Both these poets were good friends who came

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    Death

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    life after death. Interestingly‚ each author takes a different side while revealing parallel‚ underlying theories. Within their sonnets‚ John Donne and Rochester try to quell the common fear of death. Despite their efforts‚ it is evident through rhetorical devices and various analogies that death should be feared‚ as it is a negative occurrence. Rochester and Donne attempt to shed a calming light on the event of death at surface value. However‚ beneath this facade‚ it is evident that both texts contain

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    What according to T. S. Eliot‚ is ‘dissociation of sensibility’? What is his charge against Milton and Dryden in the essay on ‘The Metaphysical Poets’? Eliot’s theory of the ‘dissociation of sensibility’ may be said to be an attempt to find some kind of historical explanation to the dissolution of the tradition of unified sensibility which found its perfection in the writings of Dante and Shakespeare. The unified sensibility was a sensibility which was the product of a true synthesis of the individual

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    A comparison of Donne’s poems John Donne is the name in English literature who gave a new direction to the literary activities of his age. He is in a sense founded the metaphysical lyric‚ which was practiced by a score of writers. He set up a new tradition in versification. By and large Donne must be regarded as an original poet‚ a poet who gave much more than what he borrowed from his age. One of Donne’s poems‚ "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" comes to the same conclusion as seeing the poem

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    understood in John Donne’s‚ "Death‚ be not proud" as well as in Emily Dickinson’s "Because I could not stop for Death". Despite the different implications in each poem‚ the central theme is death. The inevitable realization of death is explored in both poems‚ by examining death as a person and by reflecting the poets’ religious beliefs. Although John Donne’s poem was written in 1633‚ the theme of death can be compared to Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ written about two centuries later. Both Donne and Dickinson

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    Metaphysical Poems

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    Metaphysical Poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell were considered metaphysical poets based on their use of conceit and wit in depicting similar situations through different metaphors. They would use original analogies to create fitting and insightful comparisons‚ usually to persuade. John Donne and Andrew Marvell have been called metaphysical poets. This is a‚” name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th century” (Metaphysical poets)” The term metaphysical poets came to be used almost

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    Meditation 17.

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    Meditation 17 In "Meditation 17" by John DonneDonne uses many different methods of trying to get his message out. By using metaphors‚ images‚ and paradoxes Donne gets his message out but in a perplexing way. In order to understand what Donne is saying‚ this passage must read over and analyzed sentence by sentence to really see the true meaning of the excerpt. Donne uses a book as a metaphor‚ with man as a chapter for every part of the book and God is the author. Donne believes God controls everything

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    Sir Philip Sidney‚ “Sonnet 31” 2. Conceit- an elaborate‚ fanciful metaphor. “Our two souls therefore‚ which are one‚ though I must go‚ endure not yet a breach‚ but an expansion‚ like gold to aery thinness beat.” John Donne‚ “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” 3. Hyperbole- an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. “I brought a heart into the room‚ but from the room I carried none with me.”

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    Wit Play Analysis

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    John Donne is made up of various writing such as strong/sensual style‚ love poems‚ religious poems and latin translations‚ epigrams‚ elegies‚ songs‚ satires‚ and sermons. John was an author who was very passionate‚ yet had difficulty expressing and “to prove that glorified bodies in heaven are essentially identical to the bodies possessed on earth” as stated by Professor Ramie Targoff. Donne believes that the union of body and soul is what “makes

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