邓恩爱情诗歌的意象分析.docx

1、邓恩爱情诗歌的意象分析开题报告姓 名性别学 号专 业班 级题目On the Imagery of John Donnes Love Poems选题意义The thesis studies imagery which is reflection of the practical world and voice of poets emotion. In the course of analyzing them, this essay aims at teaching people how to apprehend the content of poetry, poets keen feelings

2、 and the purport. And thereupon, taking the conceits of John Donne for example to improve the ability of appreciating the motif of poems and advocate the spirit of poems innovation and being bold in imagination.主要内容、思路及方法The essay analyzes the imagery of John Donnes love poems and then compares the

3、strange imagery of his love poems with the traditional description of love to present his peculiar conceits, charm of art and introduce how the intellectual side of love can be related to its physical side. Accordingly, provide a new perspective to appreciate love poetry. . Introduction. The Metaphy

4、sical School. The Analysis of John Donnes Typical Love Poems1. Compass- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning2. Fool-The Sun Rising3. Flea-The Flea . The Contrast with the Other Poems. John Donnes Influence on the Later Poets. ConclusionMethods: quotation, contrast, comments, exemplification and so on.

5、指导教师意见 指导教师签名： 年 月 日ContentsAbstract1Key words11. Introduction11.1 A Brief Review of John Donnes Life21.2 A Simple Analysis of John Donnes Poems32. The Metaphysical School53. The Analysis of John Donne s Typical Love Poems53.1 Compass-A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning63.2 Fool-The Sun Rising93.3 Fl

6、ea-The Flea114. The Contrast with the Other Poems134.1 Donnes The Flea and Shakespeares Sonnet18134.2 Donnes The Sun Rising and Tao Yuanmings Return to Rural Life144.3 Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and Wang Weis Lovesickness155. John Donnes Influence on the Later Poets166. Conclusion17Bi

7、bliography18On the Imagery of John Donnes Love PoemsName: No.: English Major Foreign Languages DepartmentSupervisor: Title: Abstract: John Donne is a representative poet of the Metaphysical School and becomes well-known in the literary arena for his subtle use of conceits. The imagery is a reflectio

8、n of the practical world and voice of poets emotion. This paper examines Donnes unique approach to love in imagery, concentrating on how he adopts images in his Songs and Sonnets for the illustration of his love ideas. The essay analyzes the imagery of his love poems and then compares them with the

9、other poems to present his peculiar conceits, charm of art and introduce how the intellectual side of love can be related to its physical side. Accordingly, it provides a new perspective to appreciate love poetry. In the course of analyzing them, this essay aims at teaching people how to apprehend t

10、he content of poetry, poets keen feelings and the purport，improving the ability of appreciating the motif and advocating the spirit of poems innovation and being bold in imagination.Key words: imagery; conceit; love摘 要：英国诗人约翰邓恩是玄学派的代表人物,他因在诗歌中精妙地运用奇喻的比喻手法而蜚声文坛。而意象，作为真实世界的写照也反映了诗人丰富的内心世界。本文即从邓恩在运用意象方

11、面考察他独特的爱情表达方式，研究他如何在歌与短歌中选取意象来传达他的爱情观。该文先后分析邓恩爱情诗中独特意象并与其他诗歌进行强烈对比，展示了其诗歌奇喻的妙用及艺术魅力并揭示其爱情观，为读者欣赏诗歌提供了一个全新的角度，促使人们深入地理解诗歌内容、诗人情感以及诗歌主旨。由此提升读者的诗歌鉴赏能力，诗歌创新意识，勇于发挥大胆想象力。关键词：意象;奇喻;爱情1. Introduction1.1 A Brief Review of John Donnes LifeJohn Donne (21 January 1572 31 March 1631) was an English poet, satiri

12、st, lawyer, and priest who is considered a prominent representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. Donne is famo

13、us for his frankness, penetrating realism and cynicism. He emphasizes his thought by fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles. John Donnes masterpiece is Songs and Sonnets, among which The Sun Rising and The Flea are the two most famous poems.Despite his great education and poetic talents, he

14、lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. He spent much of the money he inherited during and after his education on womanizing, literature, pastimes and travel. In 1601 Donne secretly married Anne Moore with whom he had 12 children. In 1615 he became an Anglican priest

15、although he did not want to take Anglican orders. He did so because King James I persistently ordered it. In 1621, he was appointed the Dean of St Pauls Cathedral in London. He also served as a member of parliament in 1601 and again in 1614. On his return Donne became private secretary to Sir Thomas

16、 Egerton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. His chances of career advancement were destroyed when he secretly married Anne More, daughter of Sir George More. Annes enraged father had Donne thrown into Fleet Prison for several weeks, and Egerton dismissed him from his post.Donnes marriage was a happy on

17、e, despite constant financial worries. With typical wry wit, Donne described his life with Anne as John Donne, Anne Donne, and Undone. Finally, in 1609, George More was induced to relent and pay his daughters dowry. In the meantime Donne worked as a lawyer, and produced Divine Poems (1607).Donnes fi

18、nal break with his Catholic past came with the publication of Pseudo-Martyr (1610) and Ignatius his Conclave. These works won him the favor of King James, who pressured him to take Anglican orders. Donne reluctantly agreed, and in 1615 he was appointed Royal Chaplain, and the following year he gaine

19、d the post of Reader in Divinity at Lincolns Inn. There his fierce wit and learning made Donne one of the popular preachers of his day.Then in 1617 Anne Donne died in giving birth to the couples 12th child. Her death affected Donne greatly, though he continued to write, notably Holy Sonnets (1618).

20、In 1621 Donne was appointed Dean of St. Pauls, a post he held for the remainder of his life. In his final years Donnes poems reflect an obsession with his own death, which came on March 31, 1631.1.2 A Simple Analysis of John Donnes PoemsDonne wrote poetry all his life. In his 20s and 30s, he wrote s

21、ome of his famous lyric poems, including the collections Satires and Songs and Sonnets. His first Anniversary did not appear until he was 39. Very little of Donnes work appeared in print during his lifetime and most of his other poetry was not published until after his death. His poems were widely r

22、ead and admired among aristocratic and literary circle. Though his style has the same organic development, Donnes verse is divided into the love poetry of his youth and the religious poetry of his older years. The love poetry is energetic, passionate with intellectual rhetoric. Physically urgent and

23、 erotic, Donne was the first writer to use sex in its present sense. On the other hand, as a devotional poet, his verse is less arresting in terms of style and less sure of direction. This has been interpreted as a spiritual struggle, that in order to achieve faith, one has to conquer doubt. Donne i

24、s considered a master of the metaphysical conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly different ideas into a single idea, often using imagery. An example of this is his equation of lovers with saints in The Canonization. Unlike the conceits found in other Elizabethan poetry, most notably

25、Petrarchan conceits, which formed clichd comparisons between more closely related objects (such as a rose and love), metaphysical conceits go to a greater depth in comparing two completely unlike objects, although sometimes in the mode of Shakespeares radical paradoxes and imploded contraries. One o

26、f the most famous of Donnes conceits is found in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning where he compares two lovers who are separated to the two legs of a compass.Donnes works are also witty, employing paradoxes, puns, and subtle yet remarkable analogies. His pieces are often ironic and cynical, especi

27、ally regarding love and human motives. Common subjects of Donnes poems are love (especially in his early life), death (especially after his wifes death), and religion. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially as compared to that of his contemporaries

28、. John Donnes style is characterized by abrupt openings, various paradoxes, ironies, dislocations. These features in combination 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 po

29、etry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of British society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donnes poetry was the idea of true religion, which was som

30、ething that he spent a lot of time considering and theorizing about. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic poems and love poems. Donne is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.John Donnes poetry represented a shift from classical forms to more personal poetry. Donne is note

31、d for his poetic meter, which was structured with changing and jagged rhythms that closely resemble casual speech (it was for this that the more classically-minded Ben Jonson commented that Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging).Some scholars believe that Donnes literary works reflect the changing trends of his life, with love poetry and satires from his youth and religious sermons during his later years.