Twicknam Garden

Twicknam Garden

Explanation

1.             The spider Love, which transubstantiates all,

                 And can convert manna to gall ;

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “Twicknam Garden” by John Donne begins with his personal predicament. The central idea of the poem is to show a broken heart, a man who loves a girl dearly but cannot receive back the same from her, and the emotions it goes through.

   The lines: “The spider love, which transubstantiates all, and can convert manna to gall,” have three keywords, ‘transubstantiates’, ‘Manna’, and ‘gall’. The first two words impart scriptural reverberations to the poem.

    Transubstantiation is the doctrine in Eucharist church which means that bread is the flesh of Christ and wine is His blood. It is an important ritual in church. The partaking of bread and wine recalls minding the crucifixion of Christ and Judas, one of Christ’s disciples instrumental in putting Christ on the cross. This is nothing but betrayal of love. Manna is food provided by God for Israelites during their long stay in the desert, when love and trust are not there sustaining the bond subsisting between man and man.

2. Make me a mandrake, so I may grow here,

     Or a stone fountain weeping out my year.

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “Twicknam Garden” by John Donne. The central idea of the poem is to show a broken heart, a man who loves a girl dearly but cannot receive back the same from her, and the emotions it goes through.

 The poet wants to be some senseless piece of the garden. He wants to be a andrake or stone fountain, and this impulse of regression to the world of rocks and plants is prompted by something in the poet that he fails to come to grips with. He finds that the trees glistening with bright foliage mock him and the poet makes a very despairing disclosure:

"Twickenham Garden" offers a memorable example of this as the poet projects himself into a mandrake and a statue. The  metamorphosis into a weeping statue, a product of human artifice, suggests that, for Donne, the beauty of art can supplement the inhuman beauty of the garden.

3. Hither with crystal phials, lovers, come,

     And take my tears, which are love's wine,

    And try your mistress' tears at home,

   For all are false, that taste not just like mine.

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “Twicknam Garden” by John Donne begins with his personal predicament. The central idea of the poem is to show a broken heart, a man who loves a girl dearly but cannot receive back the same from her, and the emotions it goes through.

  The third stanza is an intensification of the probing and analytic mind of Donne making an inquisition on the experience of frustration in love. This stanza abounds in hyperbole when he says that lovers with crystal vials would come to him for collecting his tears with the injunction from the poet to compare his tears with tears of their mistresses at home. The poet cannot forbear himself going into high-faulting utterances that tears of all are false that taste not just like his. He indulges himself in making extravagant claims of being pure and steadfast in love and makes a brutal exposure of sham and pretence underneath the veneer of naïveté.

4. O perverse sex, where none is true but she,

Who's therefore true, because her truth kills me.

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “Twicknam Garden” by John Donne.The central idea of the poem is to show a broken heart, a man who loves a girl dearly but cannot receive back the same from her, and the emotions it goes through.

The speaker laments the inability to look through a woman’s heart. They do not shine in their eyes nor can they be judged by a few tears. Just like we cannot decipher by her shadow what she wears, their thoughts too are undecipherable by such means. There is a deep meaning in the shadow and dress phrase. The dress can be as complicated as it can be, woken with the finest of silk and laden with intricate designs, but in its shadow, all it is but a simple and even darkness.

He 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.

John Donne writes a simple and beautiful piece of verse with some deep meanings, and shows the emotions and thoughts a true broken-hearted love feels.

The Sunne Rising

  The Sunne Rising

Question

1. Poets suggestion to the sun.

Answer:

    The Sun Rising" is a poem with three stanzas by poet John Donne. Lying in bed with his lover, the speaker chides the rising sun, calling it a “busy old fool,” and asking why it must bother them through windows and curtains.

 Donne, as biographical evidence suggests, was inherently a rebel against authority, particularly of the oppressive shackles of the social order. His refusal to obey the diktats of the social order and his subversion of the social hierarchy is tacitly but pointedly suggested in this poem. The speaker exhorts the sun to go and chide unwilling late schoolboys and apprentices who are terribly reluctant to join their works. Young children being forced to early morning school symbolize subjugation to authority. So also is the case with the "sour apprentices" dilly dallying with their work which too is strictly conditioned by timely attendance. The sun, symbolizing time, is an essential agent of that authority which conditions human work by time and strict punctual notions of attendance. The speaker avers that if the sun has any power, it is upon those who have to obey the laws of society fixed by authority. He also mentions country ants or agricultural labourers who, too, must obey the laws of time- bound activity. Thus if anyone who are within the orbit of the authority of the sun are either the common people or the those belonging to the highest scale of the social hierarchy.  

  All the above observation is further substantiated by the final assertion of the lover/speaker that all the material wealth and all the worldy powers of kings and princes combined together are concentrated in the world of love and this world, as Donne wrote in "The Good Morrow" is beyond death and decline.

2. How could poet prove sun weak?

Answer:  The Sun Rising" is a poem with three stanzas by poet John Donne. Lying in bed with his lover, the speaker chides the rising sun, calling it a “busy old fool,” and asking why it must bother them through windows and curtains.

    The poet personifies the sun as a “busy old fool” (line 1). He asks why it is shining in and disturbing “us” (4), 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 speaker is annoyed, wishing that the day has not yet come (compare Juliet’s assurances that it is certainly not the morning, in Romeo and Juliet III.v). 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. The poet wants to know why it is that “to thy motions lovers’ seasons run” (4). He imagines a world, or desires one, where the embraces of lovers are not relegated only to the night, but that lovers can make their own time as they see fit.

4. How can you get an idea of old ptolemaic system of universe of this poem.

Answer:

5. justification of the title?

Answer:

The Sun Rising" is a poem with three stanzas by poet John Donne. Lying in bed with his lover, the speaker chides the rising sun, calling it a “busy old fool,” and asking why it must bother them through windows and curtains.

John Donne is a really punny guy. Not only that, he wrote some deeply religious poems. So, at first glance, we're tempted to immediately assume that a poem titled "The Sun Rising" is going to be about the resurrection of Jesus. But with Donne, it's pretty much God, death, or women, and we figure out pretty quickly that there isn't much of a religious overtone to this one. And death never sets foot in these verses.

Still, the title does set the scene. Quite literally, actually. We know almost immediately that this poem will be in the tradition of the aubade, a poem or song written at dawn. This isn't just a sunrise poem, though; it's actually a direct address to the rising sun, an apostrophe.

Finally, we ought to notice the verb tense. It describes the present action of the sun. We are being dropped down into a moment as it is happening. We aren't supposed to be picturing some poet composing at a desk after the fact. We are supposed to picture these two lovers in an intimate moment, just as the first light begins to creep into their bedroom.

Explanation

 She's all states, and all princes, I,

               Nothing else is.

Princes do but play us; compared to this,

All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy.

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “The Sunne Rising”.  In John Donne' poem  the sun is personified. The poem is a lyric poem with three stanzas.  Each stanza has two quatrains and a couplet. The narrator begins by degrading the sun for interfering with the couple's sleep.  How dare he intrude on our privacy!   Do we have to adjust our love movements to your moves? The narrator begins by degrading the sun for interfering with the couple's sleep.

  How dare he intrude on our privacy! Do we have to adjust our love movements to your moves?

        Again denigrating the sun, the narrator scolds the sun and tells him to bother school children or the kings huntsmen to get the king up to go hunting.  Wake the farmers to get started on the harvest...Leave us to our love. Love knows no seasons, time, or climate. Why do you think that your rays deserve any respect from us? Are you that powerful? If you were to look into the eyes of my lover, you would think that all of the beautiful spices of India were lying next to me.  Maybe her beauty has blinded you. If you shone on kings yesterday,  you will find them here next to me.

    She's all states, and all princes I.

           Nothing else is.

 In the speaker’s view, not only is the rest of society irrelevant, it’s also fake. This squares with someone who is infatuated, though. How could anyone think of doing paperwork when they’ve found true love?

     She is everything to me, and I am hers completely.  Nothing else matters.  Nothing else exists.

 If you were one half as happy as we are, then since it is your job to warm the world, do so. Our love warms us. But if you must, shine on us as well.  Our bed is the center of the world, and you must rotate around us. What a love poem!  The narrator believes that their love outshines the sun.  In essence, the poet believes that the last thing on earth that he wants to do is to leave his lover.

2.Thine age askes, and since thy duties bee

To warme the world, that's done in warming us.

Shine here to us and thou art everywhere;

This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “The Sunne Rising”.  In John Donne' poem  the sun is personified. The poem is a lyric poem with three stanzas.  Each stanza has two quatrains and a couplet.

He tells the sun in line 27 of poem that the sun's weak old age demands that the sun take it easy. You know, in case the sun breaks a hip trying to make it over the Pacific Ocean in time for dawn the next day.

Donne brings back the idea of the sun being busy—the sun's "duties" include warming up the whole world.

Donne then becomes a used car salesman: "Look Mr. Sun, you're tired, you're busy, you don't want to run around all day trying to warm up the world. So I'm going to make you a deal—this one time only. You warm up the Mrs. and me right here in this bed and it'll warm up the whole rest of the world for you."

He's using the screwy logic of his metaphor to throw the sun a bone. If the whole world is here in this room, then the sun can linger right there and still do its job.

It may be a stretch to read this into this poem, but Donne really enjoyed making puns with his own name. Line 28 may have a hint of that: "By warming Donne, you're all done!"

The Good-Morrow

The Good-Morrow Summary

The Good-Morrow is a metaphysical love poem by John Donne, originally published in his 1633 collection of Songs and Sonnets. This three stanza poem revolves around two main metaphors, a couple of lovers waking into a new life, and a new world created by their love.As the poem opens the speaker, after being woken up together from the night spent together, tells his beloved before they met each other what they had done was all childish play. They were merely babies nursing from the mother’s breast and indulging in country pleasures. He reflects that those parts of their lives to be as worthless as the ones spent in slumber by the seven sleepers of Ephesus. He compares their true love with the past pleasures and finds all the past pleasures as fancies. He, moreover, asserts that he had only dreamt of the true beauty, that is, his beloved whom he has got now.

A glorious and happy greeting to their soul opens the second stanza. They are now awaken in the true world of love and they do not have to be fearful and jealous in terms of losing each other. Here, the speaker and his beloved have moved to the spiritual world of love. They are now complete and other beauties of the materialistic world do not distract them. Their small room where they make love is the whole world for them now. He does not consider the new discoveries of the sea an important thing now because for him his beloved is the pure world of love and discoveries.

The speaker in the third stanza praises the strong bond of love they share. He can see his image in her eyes and she is in his eyes. Their mutual love reflects their image so well that their hearts are clearly seen in their eyes. When the world is divided into hemispheres, their love is united and crosses all the boundaries of the physical world. At the end of the poem, the speaker applauses the immortality of their love. He says that when two things mixes the purity of the matter loses and it becomes weak. But, their love is not like any mixture, but the mixture of platonic love. So, their bondage cannot be slackened, and their love cannot be killed as it is immortal and pure love.

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Explanation:

1.  

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I

Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?

But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?

Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?

’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

Answer:

     These lines have been taken from the poem “The Good-Morrow”. The poem begins with a direct question from the poet to the woman. The poet expresses his conviction that their lives only began when they fell in love.  

  The poem opens with the male speaker wondering by his “troth”  – that is, his good faith – what he and his beloved did before they loved. In other words, he wonders what their lives were like before they met and fell in love. He wonders, in lines 2-3, whether, in their earlier lives, they not fully mature and whether they took pleasure in childish, simple things. Or he wonders if they snored, like the famous Biblical seven sleepers, who slept for 187 years. He then suddenly says that all these speculations must be true, because he now realizes that all the earlier pleasures he enjoyed, before he fell in love, were merely “fancies” – that is, insubstantial, imaginary fantasies, not real, substantive pleasure.

   As the poem opens the speaker, after being woken up together from the night spent together, tells his beloved before they met each other what they had done was all childish play. They were merely babies nursing from the mother’s breast and indulging in country pleasures. He reflects that those parts of their lives to be as worthless as the ones spent in slumber by the seven sleepers of Ephesus. He, moreover, asserts that he had only dreamt of the true beauty, that is, his beloved whom he has got now.

2. Where can we find two better hemispheres,

                Without sharp north, without declining west?

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “The Good-Morrow”. The poet tells "Where can we find two better hemispheres/without sharp north, without declining west?"

     Since a hemisphere is only half of a sphere Donne is drawing a traditional yet poetic image of the two lovers only being half of the entire whole. Donne is not complete without his love, and she is not complete without him.

The poem continues, "Whatever dies, was not mixed equally". Donne is explaining that true love cannot die, but that true love also requires reciprocal effort. Each lover needs to contribute equally, and only if the love is true can it never die.

  As they gaze into each other’s eyes, each sees a tiny image of the other reflected in the lover’s eye, and “true plain hearts” that “in the faces rest.”  Their love is spiritual, not earthly, and so is not subject to coldness (“sharp North”) or decrease (“declining West”).

Short Question:

1. Country pleasure.

Answer:

The Good-Morrow by John Donne, who wrote "The Good-Morrow" Country Kingdom of England Language English language Publication date 1633 "The Good-Morrow" is a poem by John Donne, published in his 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets. Written while Donne was a student at Lincoln's Inn, the poem is one of his earliest works and is thematically considered to be the "first" work in Songs and Sonnets.

  In that poem, the phrase is referring to pleasures that are really not sophisticated. They are  pleasures that country people would enjoy but that more "civilized" people would look down on.

This really goes witht the idea of this poem as a whole.The speaker is saying that he and his love were nothing until they fell in love. He compares them to children who hadn't grown up. In the phrase you cite, he compares them to country people who had not really become civilized or sophisticated.

  

2. Allusion of seven Sleepers.

Answer:

The Good-Morrow by John Donne, who wrote "The Good-Morrow" Country Kingdom of England Language English language Publication date 1633 "The Good-Morrow" is a poem by John Donne, published in his 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets. Written while Donne was a student at Lincoln's Inn, the poem is one of his earliest works and is thematically considered to be the "first" work in Songs and Sonnets.

  In the Christian tradition, the Seven Sleepers were young men who fled persecution at the hands of the Roman Emperor Decius. They retired to a remote cave to pursue a simple life of prayer and piety. When Decius heard about this, he punished the young men's defiance by having the entrance to the cave completely sealed. At the time, the men inside were blissfully unaware of what was going on, as they were all fast asleep. Nearly 200 years later, the mouth of the cave was opened, and the Seven Sleepers miraculously woke up, thinking they had only been asleep for a single day.

 Donne uses the legend of the Seven Sleepers to reinforce the poem's central conceit. The speaker and his lover have spent their whole lives as if in a deep slumber, but they have woken up at long last and realized that they belong to each other. This is not just an expression of their intense physical passion; it also represents a true spiritual awakening of the lovers' respective souls.

3. Explain poet sense of completeness.

Answer:

  

     The Good-Morrow by John Donne, who wrote "The Good-Morrow" Country Kingdom of England Language English language. "The Good-Morrow" is a poem by John Donne, published in his 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets. Written while Donne was a student at Lincoln's Inn, the poem is one of his earliest works and is thematically considered to be the "first" work in Songs and Sonnets.

    The Good-morrow is one of Donne's happy love songs, celebrating the joys of a completely unified love. We can compare it, therefore, with The Sunne Rising and The Extasie. If the lovers are so unchanging in their love, they will achieve immortality, since only what changes, dies. The poem is driven by a central image: that the two lovers make up a complete world. Nothing really exists outside of their world; it is self-sufficient, self-absorbing.

4. Present poet argument why their love cannot be lessened?

Answer:

     The Good-Morrow by John Donne, who wrote "The Good-Morrow" Country Kingdom of England Language English language. "The Good-Morrow" is a poem by John Donne, published in his 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets. Written while Donne was a student at Lincoln's Inn, the poem is one of his earliest works and is thematically considered to be the "first" work in Songs and Sonnets.

       In Donne's poetry that develops the idea of immature love versus mature love.  In "The Good Morrow," the speaker of the poem describes the two lovers' lives before they met as childish.  The two lovers before meeting each other "sucked on country pleasures," and they were not "weaned." Their previous loves with others were immature, unsophisticated, and fantastical.  It was as if they each had been sleeping until they met.

       Mature love is described in the third and last stanza of the poem. The two lovers are united body and soul, so much so that they see the reflection of themselves in each other's eyes.  Here the speaker describes a love that is perfectly reciprocated and therefore will last until eternity:

             If our two loves be one, or thou and I

         Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

Unlike the immature or inferior loves of their pasts, the lovers now share a more perfect love because it is spiritual as well as physical. In this way, their love is self-sufficient.

5. Justification of the title?

Answer:

The Good-Morrow by John Donne, who wrote "The Good-Morrow" Country Kingdom of England Language English language Publication date 1633.

The good morrow is always to be anticipated, for the speaker's love is so consuming that the promise of another day brings the prospect of more intense love. the speaker dismisses past actions and lovers as inconsequential

"The Good Morrow" emphasizes that these lovers are waking up into a new chapter of their lives, moving from physical pleasures into a new era of passionate, reciprocal love that combines both bodily lust and spiritual compatibility.