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Critical analysis on john Donne

Introduction

A critical analysis of John Donne's poetries by different poets

John Donne

John Donne (1572 - March 31 of 1631) was the most important metaphysical poet English of the times of Queen Elizabeth (1559-1603), King James (1603-1625) and his son Charles (1625-1642. His work includes love poetry, religious, translations, epigrams, elegies in the tradition of imitation of the Amores of Ovid (i.e., they are truly love poems), songs and sermons in prose. The work of the young Donne is notable for its realistic sensual style, and includes many poems, songs, satirical verses, the intensive language, and the intricacy of his metaphors. It is apart from its predecessors and most of his contemporaries. In John Donne is considered a master of concept, which combines an object (image) and an idea (meaning) forming a metaphor, usually by establishing a relationship so, amazing and sometimes bizarre pilgrimage between the two elements. (Colclough, 2003)

Donne's poetry is characterized by its remarkable ingenuity; he is the head of the new concepts and the paradoxes, puns and subtle and remarkable analogies. His poems are often ironic and cynical, especially when he discusses the motives of man and love poems allegedly written in his youth. Common themes in his poems are the true love that unites the faithful lovers, the death (especially in his youth and after the death of his wife) and religion.

Major works

John Donne is one of the most controversial poets in the history of English literature and poetry. John Donne created an extraordinary various body of work. He wrote rude versus such as The Flea and Elegie to his mistress going to bed. In these poems, he has a convenient time and celebrates the pleasure and satisfaction of the flesh. As an author very difficult arbitration on his suffering, subservience to God and his faith like “Hymn to God the Father” and “Batter My Heart”. John Donne's elegant poems are the Elegies, Satyres and Songs and Sonnets. Today the best known work by John Donne is Songs and Sonnets, this poem is written in his student life. The other poems such as “Woman's Constancy” and “The Flea” are overstated. Songs and Sonnets are more interesting and complex in the treatment of relationships and love. There are other poems such as Lovers Infiniteness, The Sun Rising, The Extasie, A Valediction, Forbidding Morning, The Canonization, Death Be Not Proud, and Batter ...