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John Donne: The Sun Rising The poet tries to start a renewing from his bed. BY STEPHEN BURT John Donne (1572-1631) wrote a prose work called Paradoxes and Problems, and his life presents galvanic pile of both: he was born a Catholic, gained notoriety for blasphemous verse, and later in life became an Anglican priest. Though near of his poems defended libertinism and casual sex, he destroyed his first career by falling in love, and stayed with the woman he married until her death. His poems picked up a reputation for head-scratchingly bizarre intellectualismâ€"one reason theyre today called metaphysicalâ€"but some of them are the most(prenominal) late felt poems of romantic love in the language. One much(prenominal) poem is The Sun Rising. A former law savant whose London relatives were persecuted for remaining Catholic after England had turned Protestant, Donne ruined what could have been a fine career at court when in 1601 he secretly married his employers niece, Anne More. The next year, Donnes employer form out and fired him. Donne later found his calling as an Anglican cleric, giving dramatic sermons at Londons most famous church.

Until after his death, most of Donnes poems circulated only in ms: his friends copied them by hand, then showed them to their friends, who copied them into their commonplace legers. (If you think of a book of poems as like a compact disc, then a commonplace book is like a mix tape, or an iPod; Donnes poems were like popular, unreleased MP3s.) Donne liked to make long, odd comparisons, called conceits: he compared two lovers to the parts of a compass, for example, and likened a teardrop to a navigators globe. Later poets such as Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) built totally careers by imitating those conceits. By the time Cowley died, though, conceits had gone out of fashion. When the powerful critic Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) coined the term metaphysical poets, he meant it as an tease: Metaphysical poets such as Cowley and Donne, he... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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