VORA HIRVA Roll no:13

Sem:1 Year:2012-13

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHMAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI

BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

Introduction John Donne• 17th century poet• A metaphysical poet• Themes and Motifs of poet

Death, Be Not Proud

• A metaphysical poem• A sonnet – theme of Death• A different angle of Death• His hatred and superiority above Death

Ecstasy

• Physical Love and Devine Love – Union and Theme of Love“.. If this analogy is Donne’s own, something he finds “for himself and not in his source,” yet if this analogy is important to our understanding of the poem, it also is ambiguous, - so ambiguous infect that critics have been unable to agree even on such basic matters figures of the simile Donne means to compare.” – LED d’ Amore (297)

Conclusion

• Conflict within himself• Resolution of problem of man• Logical arguments• Language: epigrammatic and colloquial

Thank you

• The presentation is submitted to Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji, Bhavnagar University