John Donne

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Categoria:	Letteratura Inglese
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Data:	22.12.2006
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JOHN DONNE
LANGUAGE:
Was different from Elizabethan period:
• unconventional
• colloquial
• direct to shock the reader
TONE
• irreverent
• harsh ( duro )
• striking
RHYTM
• broken
• irregular (→ recall the colloquial speech )
WORDS
• difficult
• taken from any kind of field
• concrete
PRINCIPAL FEATURES
• conceit →Is a figure of speech that uses concrete images to convey an abstract ideas
→ It is organically developed in his poetries
→ He starts from the particular, concrete, physical to general, abstract, spiritual,
Universal
• wit → ability to use strange metaphors
• paradox → a statement that seems absurd, but that expresses a truth
• pun → a play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike
• simile → comparison between two different elements using the words “like” or “as”
• metaphor → comparison between two different elements without “like” or “as”
THEMES
• DUALITY IS FUSED IN ONE → that period was full of contrasts and of development (that was faster than people’s adaptation), so there was confusion and anxiety. John Donne experimented this situation and wanted to find a solution : putting all contrasts together to find a new balance through a compromise (fusion of old and new WORLD)
• A NEW CONCEPTION OF LOVE → combination between spiritual and physical love, and also in holy sonnets between sacred and profane. (At first he lived a licentious life but than he converted to the Protestantism and became a dean )

Statement _ affermazione
Dean _ diacono