John Donne
About Poem
• Published
in 1633, Songs and Sonnets
• Poem
Consist 21 lines with Three stanzas
• The
women which he pointing is his beloved
• This
poem identified by Donne as a sonnets
• Romance
is not a passion it is what you feel inside
• The
idea of courtly love
Poem Text
• I
wonder by my troth, what thou and I
• Did,
till we loved ? Were we not wean’d till then?
• But
suck’d on country pleasures, childishly?
• Or
snorted we in the Seven Sleeper’s den ?
• “Twas
so ; but this, all pleasures fancies be;
• If
ever any beauty I did see,
• Which
desired, and got, ‘twas but a dream of thee.
• And
now good-morrow to our waking souls,
• Which
watch not one another out of fear;
• For
love, all love of other sights controls,
• And
makes one little room an everywhere,
• Let
sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone;
• Let
maps to other, worlds on worlds have thee
• Let
us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
• My face in thine eye, thien in mine appears,
• And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
• Where can we find two better hemispheres,
• Without sharp north, without declining west?
• Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
• If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Summary
• 1)
Their live begins when they fall in love
• Before
marriage they were babies , just like they used to meet secretly now they
become a mature
• Now
they asleep from seven sleepers( Ancient time catholic was hiding in a
cave from the killers who was killing
them, they stayed there for more than 2 hundred years) – Now John Donne
comparing his fancy love and True love ,
all past desires - Fancies
• The
women whom he got now(wife) was the dream , when they were lovers they wanted
each other but now they achieved , it’s a great achievement
• 2)
constant trusting love – they blindly trust and believe of their love
• No
jealous , trust is in their eye – the trust of love now is in their eyes which
can easily appear
• The
author feels complete and self-sufficient – before his beloved the author feels
incomplete but now his beloved completes him
• Lovers
abandoned the external world – what happens , what discovered they don’t have
any interest to knowing about the world or country , their only interest is the
happiness of their love
• 3)
Images in their eyes – images has been captured in their eyes, when they close
or open they use to see each other
• Even
though , When world divides into hemisphere , their love is united and can able
to cross all the boundaries of the external world
• Love
cannot die as it is pure love : However
death may divide their physical love but not their spiritual
Background
• Before
the marriage – After the Marriage
• True
love helps to better person
• Winter
and Nightfall
• Possibility
of death - Mutuality human life and love
• They
remains perfect
• Not
die ultimate threat challenge the power of death
Theme
• Lovers
as microcosm
• Neo
- plutonic love
• Microcosmic
– Physical world intellect govern the body
• Lovers
so deeply in their love, others not care so much
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