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Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God by John Donne

Yesterday's poem >>20358663

>> No.20362803
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>The English writer and Anglican cleric John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) is considered now to be the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time. He was born in 1572 to Roman Catholic parents, when practicing that religion was illegal in England. His work is distinguished by its emotional and sonic intensity and its capacity to plumb the paradoxes of faith, human and divine love, and the possibility of salvation. Donne often employs conceits, or extended metaphors, to yoke together “heterogenous ideas,” in the words of Samuel Johnson, thus generating the powerful ambiguity for which his work is famous. After a resurgence in his popularity in the early 20th century, Donne’s standing as a great English poet, and one of the greatest writers of English prose, is now assured.
>Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorised. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.

>> No.20362810

Imagine being this buckbroken by yahweh.

>> No.20363023

the superior metaphysical poet btfoing yesterday's

>> No.20363182

>>20363023
Donne is better than Marvell overall, but To His Coy Mistress is better than Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God.

>> No.20363543

>>20363182
>Donne is better than Marvell overall, but To His Coy Mistress is better than Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God.
This. Agreed.

>> No.20363667

>>20363182
>average Donne sonnet is not as good as Marvell's best known work
I guess so, but not on a technical level.

>> No.20364237

Bump

>> No.20364626

I know very little about poetry, but you’re helping me change that, OP. Thanks.

>> No.20365985

Bump

>> No.20366280

>>20364626
I rise at eleven, I dine about two,
I get drunk before seven; and the next thing I do,
I send for my whore, when for fear of a clap,
I spend in her hand, and I spew in her lap.
Then we quarrel and scold, 'till I fall fast asleep,
When the bitch, growing bold, to my pocket does creep;
Then slyly she leaves me, and, to revenge the affront,
At once she bereaves me of money and cunt.
If by chance then I wake, hot-headed and drunk,
What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk!
I storm and I roar, and I fall in a rage,
And missing my whore, I bugger my page.
Then, crop-sick all morning, I rail at my men,
And in bed I lie yawning 'till eleven again.

>> No.20366378

>>20362802
You are all high school English students

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>>20366378
Post your favorite poets. You won't because you're embarrassed.

>> No.20368393

>>20362802
Damn, that's a lot of commas.

>> No.20369427

bump

>> No.20369458

>>20369427
>bumping yesterday's thread when there's a new one up