logging in or signing up 13. METAPHYSICAL POETRY aSGuest29561 Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 1375 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (1) Dislike it (0) Added: October 27, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... By: dmcnew1 (29 month(s) ago) Great ppt! Thanks. Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: Metaphysical poetry Unknown artist (Ehglish School). Portrait of John Donne, 1631. National Portrait Gallery, London. Slide 2: concerned with the fundamental problems of the nature of the universe and man’s function or place in life 1. Meaning of metaphysical Metaphysical poetry METAPHYSICAL Slide 3: Reflected the intellectual and spiritual crisis of the 17th century 2. Main characteristics John Donne, after a miniature by Isaac Oliver, 1616. Metaphysical poetry The poet was a man of “wit”, displaying his sensitivity, his knowledge and cleverness The leading poet was John Donne Slide 4: A particular type of metaphor or simile called conceit 2. Main characteristics Metaphysical poetry If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th’other do. (John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning) The poet compares the souls of lovers to compasses Slide 5: 2. Main characteristics The conceit Illustrates and develops ideas in a detailed and over-complex way, often with an effect of shock or surprise Insists on the relationship between A (the tenor) and B (the vehicle) Metaphysical poetry Slide 6: Unusual images taken from all fields of knowledge: history, geography, astronomy, alchemy, mathematics, etc. Look, and tomorrow late, tell me, Whether both the Indias of spice and mine Be where thou left’st them, or lie here with me. Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday, And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lay. (John Donne, The Sun Rising) 2. Main characteristics Metaphysical poetry Slide 7: Take me to you, imprison me, for I Except you enthral me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. (J. Donne, Batter my heart) 2. Main characteristics Paradox: A statement which is apparently contradictory though in some sense true Metaphysical poetry Slide 8: Dramatic quality Most poems begin in medias res Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are (John Donne, Song) 2. Main characteristics Metaphysical poetry You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
13. METAPHYSICAL POETRY aSGuest29561 Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 1375 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (1) Dislike it (0) Added: October 27, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... By: dmcnew1 (29 month(s) ago) Great ppt! Thanks. Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: Metaphysical poetry Unknown artist (Ehglish School). Portrait of John Donne, 1631. National Portrait Gallery, London. Slide 2: concerned with the fundamental problems of the nature of the universe and man’s function or place in life 1. Meaning of metaphysical Metaphysical poetry METAPHYSICAL Slide 3: Reflected the intellectual and spiritual crisis of the 17th century 2. Main characteristics John Donne, after a miniature by Isaac Oliver, 1616. Metaphysical poetry The poet was a man of “wit”, displaying his sensitivity, his knowledge and cleverness The leading poet was John Donne Slide 4: A particular type of metaphor or simile called conceit 2. Main characteristics Metaphysical poetry If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th’other do. (John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning) The poet compares the souls of lovers to compasses Slide 5: 2. Main characteristics The conceit Illustrates and develops ideas in a detailed and over-complex way, often with an effect of shock or surprise Insists on the relationship between A (the tenor) and B (the vehicle) Metaphysical poetry Slide 6: Unusual images taken from all fields of knowledge: history, geography, astronomy, alchemy, mathematics, etc. Look, and tomorrow late, tell me, Whether both the Indias of spice and mine Be where thou left’st them, or lie here with me. Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday, And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lay. (John Donne, The Sun Rising) 2. Main characteristics Metaphysical poetry Slide 7: Take me to you, imprison me, for I Except you enthral me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. (J. Donne, Batter my heart) 2. Main characteristics Paradox: A statement which is apparently contradictory though in some sense true Metaphysical poetry Slide 8: Dramatic quality Most poems begin in medias res Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are (John Donne, Song) 2. Main characteristics Metaphysical poetry