Characteristics of his poems:
dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; subtle argumentation; surprising contrasts; colloquial language; irregular meter; intricate psychological analysis; and striking imagery selected from nontraditional areas such as law, physiology, scholastic philosophy, astronomy and mathematics which endow his poems with learning and wit and also make them difficult to understand.
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John Donne's masculine, ingenious style is characterized by abrupt openings, paradoxes, dislocations, argumentative structure, and "conceits” images.
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Rebellion against the conventional imagery of the Elizabethan lyric.
Poems are intellectually complex
Irregular rhythms, stanzas
Colloquial, condensed language
Use of metaphysical conceit
subtle argument
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Death, Be Not Proud
By John Donne
--Holy Sonnet 10
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Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
死神,你莫骄傲,尽管有人说你
如何强大,如何可怕,你并不是这样;
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For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
"overthrow" (conquer, overcome)
[those whom you think you have conquered]
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me;
你以为你把谁谁谁打倒了,其实,
可怜的死神,他们没死;你现在也还杀不死我。
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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
(Sleep is just a picture of death)
休息、睡眠,这些不过是你的写照,
既能给人享受,那你本人提供的一定更多;
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And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
"doe goe" = "do go"
我们最美好的人随你去得越早
Rest of their bones, and soule's deliverie.
Deliverie=freedom
越能早日获得身体的休息,灵魂的解脱。
(With death, we can rest, and our souls are freed from the body. )
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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
Not only does death not conquer us, but death itself is only a tool for -- a "slave to" -- fate (destiny), chance (accident, things that just happen), kings (men who order people to be put to death), and those for whom life is so unbearable, they kill thems
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