A valediction Forbidding
1. Profanation - [ex]
Answer: This is a word from one of the most
famous poems in English, John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning." In this poem
Profanation is the noun form of the verb to profane. It means irreverence or degradation of something worthy of respect;
cheapening.
2. How the trepidation earth and spheres it's
different?
Answer: Everything above the earth moved in
spheres: the moon, planets, the stars and sun. The spheres were concentric—picture
those Russian nesting dolls. Those spheres moved in their own patterns, but
different motions, vibrations, and alignments created what they referred to as
"celestial music" and that divine symphony controlled everything in
the universe—from the creation of planets and stars to what you are going to
eat for breakfast.
Now "trepidation"
usually means to be afraid or anxious, but this older meaning actually means to
make a literal trembling motion. So Donne is referring to the trembling motions
and vibrations of the heavenly bodies
3. Why is the poet considering there parting
not as breach rather as expansion? (A breach, but an expansion)
Answer: The poet considering there parting
not as breach rather as expansion because the souls are compared to a lump of
gold beaten thinner than paper. Their separation does not resemble a division,
but instead an expansion into a thin golden foil.
4. Compass-[ex];
Answer: John Donne's metaphysical poem "
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" employs metaphysical conceits
metaphors that are apparently paradoxical. Donne employs a mathematical
metaphor with the instrument of a compass that was used on maps to measure
distance. In this metaphor, like the gold that is refined into a thinner, more
beautiful piece, the one leg of the compass anchors the other that stretches
for [travels] across the map, leaning some to accommodate the reach of the
other leg, and strengthening the extension of this leg. Through the two
metaphors of gold and the compass, both of which are "refined" or
made better by the poet's distance from his wife, a distance that strengthens
their spiritual love.
The Sunne Rising
1. How could poet prove sun weak?
Answer: In the poem the Sunne Rising the poet
try to prove sun weak. The poet personifies the sun as a “busy old fool”.
He asks why it is shining in and disturbing “us”, who appear to be two lovers
in bed. The sun is peeking through the curtains of the window of their bedroom,
signaling the morning and the end of their time together. The poet then
suggests that the sun go off and do other things rather than disturb them, such
as going to tell the court huntsman that it is a day for the king to hunt, or
to wake up ants, or to rush late schoolboys and apprentices to their duties.
2. All wealth alchimic[ex]
Answer: This line has been taken from The
Sunne Rising by john donne. Here the poet want to tell that Alchemy is the
ancient search for a method for turning metals into gold. By Donne's time,
science had more or less debunked that myth and anyone claiming to have found
the secret to alchemy was likely thought of as a con artist.
3. How can you get an idea of old
ptolemaic system of the universe from this poem?
Answer: I can get an idea about old
ptolemaic system from the poem when the
poet tells that Shine on our bed, into the whole room; that way this will
become your solar system with you revolving around us. Here thy sphere
refers your solar system. Donne has the
Ptolemaic model of the cosmos in mind, with the bed the focal point around
which the sun revolves.
Death be not Proud
1. Who are the muster ruler of death and why?
Answer: Man are the master ruler of death
because Death has to play by the rules just as humans do. In the example of
death being a slave to a king is suggesting that death is less powerful than a
mortal is. If a king can order another person to death and by what means he
pleases, death again is at command and is subordinate to a man. Therefore man
should not fear death because man can control death.
2. Why poppie/Charmes stroke better than
death?
Answer: Donne almost seems to poke fun at
death's inflated sense of itself, telling it that, in reality, it is a
"slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men."Even in its
capability to bring rest it is not the best, because "poppie or charms can
make us sleep as well." Death’s influence is not final, nor even
long-lasting; the speaker says that "One short sleep past wee wake
eternally."
3. How the poet treating death.
Answer: Donne creates and image of
death that is not mysterious, not in control, and a slave of low status.
He does this by undermining the idea of death as bound to the rules of
"fate, chance, kings, and desperate men." He insists that death is no
more powerful than any mortal is.
Directed to death, "thou art slave"
forms an unthreatening stance of death because slaves are not threatening.A
slave is bound in submission to a master therefore having no say in what he or
she can do.
Go
and Catche a falling Starre
1. Mention the plethorn of near inplausible?
[ 7 impossible task]
Answer: the seven impossible tasks are:
Go and catch fallen Star , mandret
Root, past years,
devil's fort, mermaid singing, Envy and
progress honest mind.
2. Poet misogynistic approch?
Answer: Go and catch a falling star’ seems to
endorse the misogynistic belief that all women (or all beautiful women, anyway
– just to make it worse) are unfaithful and shouldn’t be trusted.
3. Why he has use the word pilgrimage?
Answer: The poet use the word pilgrimage
because the poet’s mention of a pilgrimage to see a fair and faithful woman has
a slightly sarcastic touch. Even his conclusion that she will be false, ere the
poet come, to two or three, has a satiric stroke.
The
Canonization
1. How is the world course going on you
respective poet love?
Answer: The world course going on us
respective poet love in many ways. "The
Canonization" starts with the poem's speaker wanting to be left alone. The
speaker offers up plenty of other stuff for this other person to make fun of,
like his tremors, gray hair, thin wallet, or even his gout.
Then he
changes course and tells this person to focus instead on making money, taking a
class, studying the arts, or observing folks like lawyers, bishops, or the
king's face. Essentially the speaker says, "Do whatever you want, pal,
just leave me alone."
changes course and tells this person to focus instead on making money, taking a
class, studying the arts, or observing folks like lawyers, bishops, or the
king's face. Essentially the speaker says, "Do whatever you want, pal,
just leave me alone."
2. The phoenis -[ex]
Answer: The lovers think of themselves as
something a bit nobler than a fly, like an eagle or a dove. Or, the speaker
reasons, maybe a phoenix is a more appropriate metaphor for these crazy kids.
The phoenix was a kind of immortal bird which, when it died, had a new version
of itself rise from its dead body. According to the lover, the riddle of
Phoenix is there in their existence. They have two bodies, but they are one.
Like the Phoenix, they die and they rise from their ashes.
3. Justification title of the
canonization.
Answer: "The Canonization" is
a poem by English metaphysical poet John Donne. The poem's title serves a
dual purpose: while the speaker argues that his love will canonize him into a
kind of sainthood, the poem itself functions as a canonization of the pair of
lovers.
4. Important this poem to the poet [duement
of love]
Answer: "The Canonization" is a
poem by English metaphysical poet John Donne. First published in 1633, the poem
is viewed as exemplifying Donne's wit and irony. It is addressed to one friend
from another, but concerns itself with the complexities of romantic love: the
speaker presents love as so all-consuming that lovers forgo other pursuits to
spend time together. In this sense, love is asceticism, a major conceit in the
poem.
Twicknam Garden
1. Why the poet is calling himself traitor?
Answer: The poet is calling himself traitor.
Because though he wanted to start a new life, he brought into that garden of
glory, his love; and his love was now not completely pure.
2. Spider love -[ex]
Answer: The poet brought into that
garden of glory, his love; and his love was now not completely pure. He calls
it a spider’s love. A spider lives off filth and dirt
3. True paradise-[ex]
Answer: The garden of Adam and Eve was a
paradise till the serpent came along and spoiled it. The speaker the garden he
was in now was also a paradise. But akin to that text, he brought a serpent,
his love, into this garden and made this a paradise in the truest of sense.
4. How is the environment humiliating the
poet?
Answer: In Donne, there is an affirmation of
cool detachment and self-possession in the face of something that upsets him.
He shows a response and congeals at worst into cold self-righteousness. Donne’s
wit exhibits a cool sanity and a wary openness which goes much beyond the
refusal of facile commitment or sardonic amusement at the way the world goes.
5. Poet misogynists approach?
Answer: The speaker says that the tears that
does not taste like his’s are all false. The speaker laments the inability to
see a woman’s heart clearly. Because of this, he says only the woman knows the
truth and her truth causes a lot of pain to her lover.
6. Perverse sexe-[ex]
Answer: The poet calls the sex perverse. He
says that because he believes in love, nothing is true but she. He believes so
because it is said that ‘truth brings pain’. And she is true, because she
brings a lot of pain to her lover.
