约翰.邓恩与约翰.弥尔顿.ppt

C. John Donne
a. 邓恩与玄学诗派:
The term “metaphysical poetry” monly used to name the work of the 17th-centutury writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne (1572 - 1631).
C. John Donne
a. 邓恩与玄学诗派:
The metaphysical poets had a rebellious spirit
The metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.
C. John Donne
a. 邓恩与玄学诗派:
The diction is simple, and echoes the words and cadences mon speech.
The imagery is drawn from the actual life.
The form is frequently that of an argument with the poet’s beloved, with God, or with himself.
C. John Donne
a. 邓恩与玄学诗派:
John Donne is the leading figure of the “metaphysical school”.
C. John Donne
a. 邓恩与玄学诗派:
His poems give a more inherently theatrical impression.
The mode is dynamic -
ingenuity of speech, vividness of imagery, vitality of rhythms

*(the feature of the Elizabethan lyric poems: pure, serene, tuneful, and smooth-running)
C. John Donne
a. 邓恩与玄学诗派:
The most striking feature of Donne’s poetry: its tang of reality,
in the following sense:
it seems to reflect life in a real rather than a poetical world.
C. John Donne
b. 邓恩的生平:
Donne was born into a prosperous merchant family.
His early education was attended to by a private tutor; then he studied both at Oxford and Cambridge, but left without taking a degree because of his Roman Catholic background.
In 1591, Donne began his legal studies at the Inns of Court in London, where he spent much of his time studying law, languages, literature, and theology.
C. John Donne
b. 邓恩的生平:
pleting his studies, Donne became private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the eminent Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
His great prospects of the worldly ess were ruined by his secret marriage with lady Egerton’s niece, Ann More in 1601.
For over ten years from then on, Donne had been working hard, fighting against poverty.
C. John Donne
b. 邓恩的生平:
Donne’s conversion to Anglicanism had single date, rather it was a grad