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John Donne's Love's Alchemy
In 'Love's Alchemy,'; John Donne sets up an analogy between the Platonists, who try, endlessly, to discover spiritual love, and the alchemists, who in Donne’s time, tried to extract gold from baser metals. This analogy allows Donne to express his beliefs that such spiritual love does not exist and those who are searching for it are only wasting their time. Donne cleverly uses language that both allows the reader to see the connections between the alchemists and the Platonists and that allows for a more sexual interpretation of the piece.
The poem opens with two lines that lay the groundwork for the analogy and that have a sexual implication. The word “digged'; and the image of “love’s mine';, obviously allow for the comparison between the Platonist’s and the alchemists. Donne explains that some have experienced more love than he has, and, in having done so, have penetrated “deeper'; into “love’s hidden mystery,'; that is, they have reached a point beyond sensual love where they have found it’s true “centric'; or essential happiness. This would be analogous to alchemists, who, after many attempts, have been able to extract gold from other metals. Due to the diction that Donne uses and the manner in which he expresses himself in these two lines, it is possible to extract their sexual meaning that serves to ridicule the claims and means of the Platonists as well as the alchemists. The words “digged love’s mine'; can be interpreted as...
The American public 's reaction to Lumbee English were negative and they tried to erase the language and their culture. In 1880 the government established Indian boarding schools where Native American students were treated harshly and were forbidden to express their culture or speak their language. A direct quote from one of their headmasters was “Kill the Indian, save the man”(History and Culture "Boarding Schools," 2016). The boarding schools served as more of a “correctional facility” than a school and imprisoned children of all ages. These boarding schools did not close until 1932, and in that time many children were whipped, mentally scarred, and some even died. There are hundreds of reported cases of Native American students dying in schools and there are even more that are not on paper. With time people have become more accepting of other cultures but the stigma towards Lumbee English still exists. The standardization of American English has created a lot of tension with other dialects of English present in the United States. Presently outsiders see Lumbee English speakers as uneducated because it is not the form of English they learn in schools, but the issue is slightly more complex. North Carolina’s dialect of English has southern routes that give it a different accent,
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In order to better understand Philip's critique of Donne within the lines of her poetry, a reading
John Donne uses poetry to explore his own identity, express his feelings, and most of all, he uses it to deal with the personal experiences occurring in his life. Donne's poetry is a confrontation or struggle to find a place in this world, or rather, a role to play in a society from which he often finds himself detached or withdrawn. This essay will discuss Donne's states of mind, his views on love, women, religion, his relationship with God; and finally how the use of poetic form plays a part in his exploration for an identity and salvation.
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John Donne?s poem connects flesh and spirit, worldly and religious ideas in a fascinating way between seemingly unrelated topics. He compares sexual intercourse to a bite of a flea and says that now their blood has mixed inside the flea. He also compares the inside of the tiny flea to the entire world, including the couple.
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In both ‘The Sun Rising’ and ‘The Good Morrow’ Donne presents the experience of love, in a typical Metaphysical style, to engage his reader through sharing his own experiences. These poems show distinctive characteristics of Metaphysical poems which involve colloquial diction, drawing inventive imagery from unconventional sources, passionately analysing relationships and examining feelings. Donne presents the experience of love through conceits, Metaphysical wit, language techniques and imagery, in a confident tone using logical argument. The impact of Donne’s use of direct and idiomatic language shows the reader how he feels about a woman and ultimately love.
In this work, Donne states the necessity to join in physical union with another “else a prince in heaven lies” (67). In other words, Donne maintains that if one never strays from God, one’s intellect will not develop. The speaker describes how the souls of the two lovers leave their bodies during sexual union—”love these mix’d souls doth mix again, and makes both one, each this and that” (34-36). In other words, through the speaker, Donne shares that sex should not be viewed in a sexual framework; instead, Donne views sex as a joint framework of sharing the soul 's knowledge, and thus journey to God. Donne further argues that the power of sexual union “interinanimates two souls”, which bring them closer to God (42). Ultimately, as seen in both poems, Donne does not reject the human body as Augustine does. Instead, he embraces the body and love’ relationship and power on the
Gregor’s own decisions, along with others, ultimately cause his isolation and lead to the dehumanization