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A Hell of One’s Own Making: The Frustration of Love in John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester’s Poetry
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This paper aims to probe into the frustration of love in John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester’s poetry that threatens the sense of existence. This paper argues that Rochester does not acknowledge a priori reasoning as a valid ground of knowledge but recognize the sense experience as the only source of truth. Thus, for Rochester, pleasure, the satisfaction of sense, is the summum bonum and the evidence of our happiness and existence. For him, the pleasure resulting from the consummation of love through physical interaction is the very evidence that we live. Yet, in Rochester’s poetry, the mental affection fails repeatedly to be consummated by physical interaction. Pleasure remains in the realm of idea, or, if attempted, turns out to be unattainable because of inevitable impotence. On the contrary, physical interaction without mental affection is possible, yet it emerges to be destructive of human relationship as it corrupts into power struggle or of human himself as it becomes murderous of human beings. As Rochester’s resistance against the sense of non-entity, the inevitable outcome of the failure of love, fails, Rochester’s pessimism about love is completed, as it is substantiated that mental affection and its physical consummation is incompatible and physical interaction without mental fondness wields its ruthless destruction. In this dire situation, a human being is not only cut off from other human beings, but also from his own existence. Yet, this paper proposes that this hell of love is Rochester’s own making, because, as he has faith only in sense experience as a veritable proof of love and at the same time is painfully aware that there can be found no experience of love in this world, a hell is created by himself for himself from which there is no way out unless he averts his eyes from the world of sense into that of mental abstraction.
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This paper aims to probe into the frustration of love in John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester’s poetry that threatens the sense of existence. This paper argues that Rochester does not acknowledge a priori reasoning as a valid ground of knowledge but recognize the sense experience as the only source of truth. Thus, for Rochester, pleasure, the satisfaction of sense, is the summum bonum and the evidence of our happiness and existence. For him, the pleasure resulting from the consummation of love through physical interaction is the very evidence that we live. Yet, in Rochester’s poetry, the mental affection fails repeatedly to be consummated by physical interaction. Pleasure remains in the realm of idea, or, if attempted, turns out to be unattainable because of inevitable impotence. On the contrary, physical interaction without mental affection is possible, yet it emerges to be destructive of human relationship as it corrupts into power struggle or of human himself as it becomes murderous of human beings. As Rochester’s resistance against the sense of non-entity, the inevitable outcome of the failure of love, fails, Rochester’s pessimism about love is completed, as it is substantiated that mental affection and its physical consummation is incompatible and physical interaction without mental fondness wields its ruthless destruction. In this dire situation, a human being is not only cut off from other human beings, but also from his own existence. Yet, this paper proposes that this hell of love is Rochester’s own making, because, as he has faith only in sense experience as a veritable proof of love and at the same time is painfully aware that there can be found no experience of love in this world, a hell is created by himself for himself from which there is no way out unless he averts his eyes from the world of sense into that of mental abstraction.
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