Poetry for Students, Volume 35

tetrameter. In most lines, however, the final unstressed syllable is omitted. Lines 5 and 6 in stanzas 1 and 3, and line 6 in st ...

Wyatt; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Sir Walter Raleigh, and others. Music was also a part of this cultural renaissance. Some of ...

and Thomas de Quincey tried to restore interest in Donne’s work, and Victorian poet Robert Browning was an admirer of the poet. ...

In the 1590s, when John Donne was full of the energies of youth, he was known in London social circles as something of a ladies’ ...

love. This was the young Donne who wrote pas- sionate, highly erotic poems, such as ‘‘To his Mistress Going to Bed,’’, and inten ...

other: from woman-as-goddess to woman-as- whore. This hints at a way of thinking, of how men respond to women, that is found man ...

(Mueller 148), servile submissiveness to an absurdly repellent embodiment of patriarchal royal absolut- ism (Goldberg 111–12), a ...

calculated to drag the stones to the ground actually provide the principle of support—a principle in which thrust and counterthr ...

Romaneroticelegyis,asPaulVeynesays,‘‘oneof the most sophisticated art forms in the entire his- tory of literature’’ (1), and in ...

agree that Donne is ‘‘the master of complex, unset- tling, prickly poems, poems that simply will not resolve,’’ (3, 5).... Such ...

to notice that the opening lines of ‘‘The Sunne Rising’’ echo even as they transform the corre- sponding lines of Ovid,AmoresI. ...

piquant by the disastrous results of his elope- ment with Anne More. Donne the man could stay in bed every morning because he ha ...

wit precludes even a shadow of sentimentality: he retains an inescapable awareness of the pro- clivity of erotic desire for self ...

to speak few words in a low murmur, to reap no lingering kisses on parched lips (which any lover would regard as barbarous) to h ...

thousands despoiling the literary landscape. It is Donne’s capacity to interact creatively with liter- ary tradition that makes ...

incarnational and sacramental. This conver- gence of conflicting elements—religious and political strife, philosophical and lite ...

covers the first thirty years of John Donne’s life. She covers such topics as buildings, furniture, courtyards, and gardens. She ...

Sonnet LXXXIX By the time Pablo Neruda wroteOne Hundred Love Sonnetsfor Matilde Urrutia in 1959, he was already a giant figure o ...

the same concern for nature, humanity, and love as all of his work. He called poetry the bread of the masses and himself a poet ...

I want what I love to continue to live, and you whom I love and sang above everything else 10 to continue to flourish, full-flow ...