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John Donne's Metaphysics of Love: The Presence of the Absent Lover in His Poetry
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Donne's love poetry is famous for the mixture of feeling and thought through the action of metaphysical conceit which is ingeniously invented by Donne. It includes the various different experiences of love that the poet experienced. There appear so many contradictory attitudes toward love spoken by various sorts of speakers. Some speakers act as advocate of ideal love which is consist of royalty and purity. Others voice with the negative cynical tone about the fickleness of love that is characterized as physical, materialistic and secular. However, for all its various attitudes his poetry articulates a consistent tendency to transcend the limitedness and changeableness of human love in common. The lovers in his poems prefer oneness to diversity, one to many. They all try to escape from the mutability and decay which the common people are subject to when they fall in love in this world. Especially, they pursue the one world made of two. The oneness of the lovers is the most important because it shows what the very nature of love is like the poet proposes. There is a deep longing for stability and permanence in his lyrics. His speaker cannot admit the absence of his lover. As in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," the parting of the two lovers means not the separation of each other but the expansion of the two souls. Though their bodies experience separation when they part, their souls do not separate since the lovers' two souls are actually one and the same. What Donne stresses in his poetry is that the idealistic true love between two lovers can be completed only when man and woman have one identity beyond the differentiation of the sexes, which he calls 'one neutral thing' in "The Canonization." For Donne the absent lover is not the one who has gone away from his or her lover but the one who is everpresent even when they separate each other physically. The presence of the absent lover shows that the crucial point for John Donne's metaphysics of love is the unchangeableness and perpetuity of love. It indicates the movement of the human spirit from change to stability with uniting body and soul, feeling and thought, life and death.
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Donne's love poetry is famous for the mixture of feeling and thought through the action of metaphysical conceit which is ingeniously invented by Donne. It includes the various different experiences of love that the poet experienced. There appear so many contradictory attitudes toward love spoken by various sorts of speakers. Some speakers act as advocate of ideal love which is consist of royalty and purity. Others voice with the negative cynical tone about the fickleness of love that is characterized as physical, materialistic and secular. However, for all its various attitudes his poetry articulates a consistent tendency to transcend the limitedness and changeableness of human love in common. The lovers in his poems prefer oneness to diversity, one to many. They all try to escape from the mutability and decay which the common people are subject to when they fall in love in this world. Especially, they pursue the one world made of two. The oneness of the lovers is the most important because it shows what the very nature of love is like the poet proposes. There is a deep longing for stability and permanence in his lyrics. His speaker cannot admit the absence of his lover. As in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," the parting of the two lovers means not the separation of each other but the expansion of the two souls. Though their bodies experience separation when they part, their souls do not separate since the lovers' two souls are actually one and the same. What Donne stresses in his poetry is that the idealistic true love between two lovers can be completed only when man and woman have one identity beyond the differentiation of the sexes, which he calls 'one neutral thing' in "The Canonization." For Donne the absent lover is not the one who has gone away from his or her lover but the one who is everpresent even when they separate each other physically. The presence of the absent lover shows that the crucial point for John Donne's metaphysics of love is the unchangeableness and perpetuity of love. It indicates the movement of the human spirit from change to stability with uniting body and soul, feeling and thought, life and death.
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