JOHNDOONE POEM

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NAME: JETHWA   MONALI A

   SEM: 1

SUBJECT: PAPER-1 THE RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

TOPIC: METAPHICAL   POETRY BY JOHN DONNE 

              1: ELEGY-X- “THE DREAM”

              2: “THE FLEA”

ROLL NO: 23

SUBMITED: MAHAEAJA KRISHNAKUMAR SHINJI

                      BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

                      DEPT.OF. ENGLISH

              

METAPHYSICAL POETRY BY JOHN DONNE

      1-ELEGY-X “THE  DREAM”

      2- “THE FLEA”

→ INTORODUCTION:-

                  John Donne was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical.

→	BORN	22 JANUARY 1572  LONDON, ENGLAND
→	DIED	31MARCH 1631 LONDON ENGLAND
→	0CCUPATION	POET,PRIEST,LAWYER
→	NATIONALITY	ENGLISH
→	ALMA MATER	OXFORD UNIVERSITY
→	GENRE	SATIRE,LOVEPOETRY ELEGY SERMONS
→	SUBJECT	LOVE,SEXUALITY,RELIGION,DEATH

→ EARLY LIFE:-

              John Donne was born in London, 1572 and he was the son of rich iron merchant. At that time merchant of England were creating a new and higher kind of princes. On his father’s side he came from and old welsh family  and on his mother’s side from the Heywood and sir Thomas more’s family. Both families were catholic .His own education could not be continued because of his religion.

           

              Donne was studied law at Lincoln’s Inn ,was investigating as the philosophic ground of all faith. He wrote poetry and  shared his wealth with  needy catholic relatives. Whe his wife died her allowance ceased and Donne was left with seven children in extreme poverty.

              All his work one finds a mystery a hiding of some deep thing which the world would gladly know and share and which is one poem is suggested in his Hunting little poem ,”The under taken “:

           I HAVE DONNE ONE BRAVER THING

           THEN ALL THE WPRTHIES DID;

            AND YET A BRAVER THENCE   DOTH SPRING,

             WHICH IS, TO KEEP THAT HID

Donne’s poetry is so uneven, at times so starting and fantastic that few critics would care to recommend it to others.

   John Donne   was grater one, he was worked:

1)      As metaphysical poet.

2)      He was as a poet: His merits and demerits.

3)      He was also a general Estimate of as a poet.

           Donne reputation as a love poet rests on his 55 lyrics   which were written at different period of his of his life, but were published for the first time in1633 in one volume called songs and sonnets. They are literary experiments exploration of love relationship from the man’s points of view.

John Donne was died in 1631.

→MEANING OF METAPHYSICAL:-

     META-“Beyond”

     PHYSICS- “Physical Nature”

                      

       It was Dryden first used the word METAPHYSICAL in connection with Donne poetry and wrote, poetry and wrote DONNE AFFECTS THE METAPHYSICS.

→   FEATURES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY :-

FEATURES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY

→1) CONSCIOUS ATTEMPT. →2) DISPLAY OF SCHOLARSHIP →3)  FAR FEATCHED IMAGES →4) SCHOLARSHIP AND MUSICALITY →5) OPINION OF CRITICS.

         In the beginning of the 17^th century between 1600 and 1635   is the  school of the poet emerged whose poetry came to be known as the Metaphysical poetry.

        Here I would like to write the 2 poems of John Donne’s and entitled by “THE DREAM” and “ THE FLEA” this both poems presents the love, emotion ,feelings etc. Both poems deal with the love and how can they be treated with our love?

→ DISCRIBED THE POEM:-

1.    ELEGY  - X  “ THE DREAM”  :-

 “THE DREAM” by john Donne juxtaposes emotion of emotion of love in dream and in reality it is a poem about the lover experience of love in dream. Which he finds more warm then the experience of love in the  reality it is poem about comparison of love in  a dream and in reality and the conclusion that the lover arrive act is that love in dream is more pleasing experience compared  to reality

            “Image of her whom I love, more than she,

            Whose fair impression in my faithful heart’

   Makes me her medal and makes her love me.”

The poem being with  the lovers confession that in his dream.  He love his beloved more that her for herself there is an image of his beloved inscribed in his art and he moves with it as if it were a medal.

                 “As kings do coins, to which their stamps

                  Impart the value: go and take my heart from

                   Hence,

                   Which now is grown to grate and good

                    For me,

In this line the lover compares it with a coin, just the impression of the king value to the coin, the same way her image in his heart gives value to his life, The lover finds dream the sense of honours does not bother him.

                     Honours oppress weak spirits, and our sense

                      Strong objects dull;

                      The more, the less we see.”

The lover knows that an honour weakens spirits of a person, who is in love. Since honours restrains his emotion of love.

                   “Convenient,and more proportional.

                    So if I dream I have you, I have you,

                     For all our joys are but fantastical

                     And I Scape the pain for pain is true;

                     And sleep which locks up sense,

                      Doth lock out all “

In this second stanza lover described what happens with him when the dream is lover. The joy which he experience in meeting his beloved in a dream is more fantastical then joy in real meeting then joy in a real dream is convenient and balanced that is the reason why is the lover without like to meet her again and again in dream that dreams provides him with an escape from harsh reality and pain of life. The reason is it is during sleep that over sense is locked and does not bother us.

                

                     “After a such fruition I shall wake and,

                       But the waking, nothing shall repent;

In the last concluding stanza of the poem the lover informs how he would like to react to his on dream when he gets up, the lover is not willing to repent for his meeting his beloved in that dream.

                   And shall to love more thankful sonnet make

                   Than if more honour, tears and pains were

                    Spent”

The poet would like to pass by writing more sonnet hs beloved. He does not want to waste his life in tears, pains were spent.

                    “But the dearest heart, and dearer Image,

                      Image stay;

                     Alas, true joys at best are dream enough;

                      Though you stay hear you pass to fat away;

                      For even at first life’s taper is a snuff.”

The lover reques his dream to stay for some more time because joy act it’s a best can be experience only in dream.

                    “Failed with her love may I be; rather grown

                       Mad with much heart, than idiot with none”

In this line lover has to choose between, he would choose becoming made by feeling his heart with her lover, the lover would prefer to be made but not living life as an idiot.

→CONCLUSION:-

                The present poem of John Donne uses certain the far-fetched image giving it a metaphysical touch. The image of coin with the Impression of king on it to described his heart is the best example of it. John Donne through his poem conveys in massage that love in a dream has more charming effect then love in a real life.

→2.  THE FLEA:-

The flea by John Donne is an ideal example of the metaphysical poetry. This poem deals with theme of love but the image which the poet employs-“THE FLEA”-is taken from the field of biology. The Flea was a small insect with sucks blood form human body is insects is used hear as a theme for the expression of love.

   

     “Mark but this flea, and mark in this,

       How little that which thou deniest me is;

       It suck’d me first, and now sucks thee,

        And this flea our two bloods mingled be.

The poem is addressed by the lover to his beloved and through these addressed poetries to request his lady love not to reject his proposal. The lover goes on proposing and every time it is rejected by lady. The lovers mention that both have become one in the form of that flea. The flea first sucked his blood then her blood and in this manner both have become the lover tries to conveys her saying that whatever his denied by her has already happened in that flea. The lover considers the mingled of their blood as their marriage, more than marriage. That flea is their also temple.

        O stay, three live in one flea spare,

        Where we almost, yea, more than married are.

         This flea is you and I, and this our married bed,

          And married temple is.

Such and  explanation of the  lover . Tempt her to kill that flea but the lover request her not to kill that flea. She if she kill it, it would be killing three lives-lives of the flea, his life, and her life it would be a big sin of her.

         Though use make you apt to kill me,

         Let not to that self-murder added be,

         And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

The lady knows that she always willing to kill him but why should she kill herself. He tries to make her aware of the fact that self-murder is a big sin.

The lady does not follow his request and kills that flea, making the colour of her nail purple. The admits that the flea was a guilty because of his a guilty blood only position her blood was not guilty .The lady believes that she has not became weaker. Even when to bloods became one in that flea. The lover once again requests her to accept this as an example, that all her fears are false. The lover is of the opinion that if she accepts his love it would being to honour to her following to love is not in sin or an act on shame. On the contrary it brings honour to a person.

→CONCLUSION:-

    The present poem can be considered and experiment made by JOHN DONNE because a poet uses hardly a biographically image to deal with the theme of love. JOHN DONNE  has done that in this poem and he remain successes full.

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