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TIME (LIFE IS ETERNAL (Holy Sonnet X ("Death be not proud",…
TIME
LIFE IS ETERNAL
The Canonisation
The title itself acknowledges the process by which an individual becomes elevated by religious officials to the formal position of a saint, which gives a person eternal life (by having an effect on the physical world after death) "Us canonised for love"
"We can die by it, if not live for love, and if unfit for tombs and hearse/ our legend be, it will be fit for verse"
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The Relic
" A bracket of bright hair about the bone" reference to a practice of making something of the past an object of worship, allowing the thing to exist eternally
"Guardian Angels" in death, they become angels where they can live forevermore
Holy Sonnet VI
"As my soul to heaven her first seat, takes flight" a continual reference of body soul dualism in Donne's Holy Sonnet's explores Donne's assertion that although we may physically die, our soul exists eternally in the spiritual realm
Holy Sonnet X
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"One short sleep past, we wake eternally"
"Death, nor yet canst thou kill me"
Christian reference o death being only a means to eternal life. Death is only the rebirth of the soul into eternal life
Death lies somewhat in-between - as both a constant and temporal figure, assisting the faithful to move from transient form to permanence by God's side
Holy Sonnet XIII
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Although Donne questions whether in death he will be assigned to heaven or hell, he acknowledges either way there is an afterlife
LOVE
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Romantic
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The Good Morrow
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"Thou and I love so alike, that none do shaken, none can die" Irregular metre suggests unsureness in the duration of love (iambic pentameter)
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Woman's Constancy
"As true deaths, true marriages untie" romantic love ends at death
Spiritual (Agapic)
With maturity and time, Donne's love of God develops and transforms.
He begins with the degradation of spiritual activity through metaphysical references to it in relation to sexual acts, following by proving his agape love is superior, and finally proving his love of God is of utmost importance
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POETRY
The Triple Fool
"But not of such measures when 'tis read, both are increased lay such long"
Donne is confected between purely being an expression of emotion satisfy his grief, or increasing his grief through allowing his wounds to remain open as it lives in poetry throughout time
The Canonisation
"And by these hymns, ask shall approve us canonised for love"
It is holy hymns which are able to make thing timeless (the act of canonisation is a means to give people 'eternal life'
"Our legend be, it will be fit for verse"
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PERCEPTIONS OF TIME
Is Time Binding?
No: The Anniversary
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Speaker believes that the perfection of their love will transcend beyond time and they will remain united "death were no divorce"
Yes: The Anniversary
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"Two graves must hide thine" - if the lovers are not married then they cannot be buried together, doubt about the eternity of their love
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