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Johnny D (Writing techniques (Conceit (Compass (Two souls connected even…
Johnny D
Writing techniques
Paradox
"Who are a little wise, the best fools be"
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The Anniversary
a poem marking 1 year anniversary, yet the poem discusses how time has no affect on their love.
Conceit
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Taper
These burn and die having being consumed by their passion (fire). To have sex will result in their own metaphysical death (orgasm) just as a candle burns away its own heat.
Gold
Can be stretched very thin, yet never breaks apart.
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Shadow Upon the lecture
Two stanzas mirror each there, much like the shadow discussed in the poem before and after noon.
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Lexical fields of terms
Plays last scene - play, mile, race, inch, minute - measures of time/distance. Analogy for life
Canonizations: "die, live, tombs, hearses, urn, ashes"
Holy Sonnets
Sonnets are traditionally composed for a lover, Donne addresses God
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Tone of poem changes dramatically at Volta, often comes to a realisation, or answer to his original predicament
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God/Religion
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Love is saint-like, worthy of miracles
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Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
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Contrast: In Hymn to god - Donne is certain he will get into heaven, in all other poems he is apprehensive and doubtful
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Love/Sex
The Flea
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"Thou know't that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead"
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"Just so much honour, when thou yields to me, will waste, as this flea'd death took like from thee"
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Lecture Upon the Shadow
"So whilst our infant loves did grow, Disguises did, and shadows, flow, From us, and our cares; but, now 'tis not so."
"two shadows went, along with us, which we ourselves produc'd"
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Symbols
Shadows = insecurities/distrust/disenchantment in relationship...the narrator compares the characters’ suppression of their feelings over time to a growing shadow:
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"Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night.)
Although the characters are dissatisfied with one another, the idea of a perfect romance still persists in their private thoughts. Genuine love is persistent and does not lose its lustre. - Star and moon bring light at night
"The morning shadows wear away, but these grow longer all the day; But oh, love's day is short, if love decay."
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The Relic
"we loved well and faithfully, yet know what we loved, nor why"
Death
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A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
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"Dead and interr'd; yet all these seem to laugh,
Compar'd with me, who am their epitaph."
"For I am every dead thing,
In whom Love wrought new alchemy."
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"He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not"
"I, by Love's limbec, am the grave
Of all that's nothing."
"If I an ordinary nothing were,
As shadow, a light and body must be here."
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The Triple Fool
Paradox
"Who are a little wise, the best fools be"
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CONTRAST :green_cross:
Women are unfaithful and will leave , a loyal woman is hard to find .
The best part of love/sex is the variety of experiences - Men are unfaithful....I also do not want to be committed
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