EX 1 PAGE 192
- Love poems: the beloved woman is flesh and blood and, faithful or not, she is capable of relishing the pleasure of sex but also the communion with the spirit and the mind of his lover
- Divine poems: Donne's relationship with God is based on conflict, doubt, uneasiness and thre love of God is as imperfect, inconstant and transitory as the love for a woman
- Features common to both: dramatic quality, colloquial language, figures speech like paradox and the conceit or metaphysical conceit (metaphysical wit) and the images appeal to both the reader's intellect and emotions
EX PAGE 194
- Why shouldst thou think thy beams so reverend, and strong?
- The modern English for "but that" is "like this"
- "In that" is referread to the Sun
EX 1 PAGE 195
A.
All the expressions are negative and they are: busy, old, fool, unruly, saucy pedantic wretch
B.
1.b
2.d
3.c
4.a
C.
The Sun shouldn't rule the lovers' time because their love is immutabile and doesn't know any season, clime, nor hours, days, months
EX 2
A.
The poet would eclipse the power of the Sun by closing his eyes but he doesn't do that because he'd lose his beloved's sight
B.
He says that her eyes are really radiant and bright
C.
He conveys the rarity and the splendour of the woman by comparing her to India's spice and mine
EX 3
"She" is all states - "I" is all princes - we are everything - all the rest is nothing - in fact princes are only an imitation - honour is mimic - and the wealth is alchemy - if the Sun shines he brings light and warmth to the whole world
B.
Patronizing
EX 5
The elements that I've underlined in stanza 1 express a personification
EX 7
1. personifed
2. lovers
3. seasons
4. closing
5. brighter
6. bed
7. states
8. world
9. knowledge
10. metaphysical