존 던과 불일치의 시학
John Donne and Poetics of Inconsistency
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John Donne who is well known as the leading metaphysical poet in the seventeenth century sings important aspects of human experience in his poems. His individual poems express various contradictory views of love, women, and the body and soul. He explores the value of idealistic love in one poem and shows the inevitableness of the change in human love in another poem. For example, in his poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” the speaker asserts that the love between his lover and him is quite different from sublunary lovers’ love. Their two souls, which are one, never break off even when they separate each other physically. Even though he must go far away from his woman, they are only expended like the beaten gold. He emphasizes his love as an ideal one which is characterized by perfection and everlastingness. On the other hand, in such a poem “Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star” the speaker laments that he can never meet a woman true and fair. He shows his cynicism of the idealistic love that seeks stability and perfection in this world. He believes that change and decay are the condition in which the two lovers find themselves. The contrary impulses like this in Donne’s poetry come from his diverse experience. His love poetry Songs and Sonnets expresses not only his concept of love but also the power of love that can survive human life in this world where change and death sway man’s destiny. His various attitudes and the ambiguities of his poems show what is his view of the world and life in this mutable world. The inconsistency of his poetry expresses the instability and infinity of his desire. He wants to know everything in life and he cannot stop asking questions about human life. It is this curiosity and insatiability of his mind that make his poems filled with strong energy. The poetics of his inconsistency results from his desire for knowing something more over and over again.
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John Donne who is well known as the leading metaphysical poet in the seventeenth century sings important aspects of human experience in his poems. His individual poems express various contradictory views of love, women, and the body and soul. He explores the value of idealistic love in one poem and shows the inevitableness of the change in human love in another poem. For example, in his poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” the speaker asserts that the love between his lover and him is quite different from sublunary lovers’ love. Their two souls, which are one, never break off even when they separate each other physically. Even though he must go far away from his woman, they are only expended like the beaten gold. He emphasizes his love as an ideal one which is characterized by perfection and everlastingness. On the other hand, in such a poem “Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star” the speaker laments that he can never meet a woman true and fair. He shows his cynicism of the idealistic love that seeks stability and perfection in this world. He believes that change and decay are the condition in which the two lovers find themselves. The contrary impulses like this in Donne’s poetry come from his diverse experience. His love poetry Songs and Sonnets expresses not only his concept of love but also the power of love that can survive human life in this world where change and death sway man’s destiny. His various attitudes and the ambiguities of his poems show what is his view of the world and life in this mutable world. The inconsistency of his poetry expresses the instability and infinity of his desire. He wants to know everything in life and he cannot stop asking questions about human life. It is this curiosity and insatiability of his mind that make his poems filled with strong energy. The poetics of his inconsistency results from his desire for knowing something more over and over again.
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