John Donne, Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Valediction act of telling farewell Any theme of transmuting sth will be connected

d to alchemy. Alchemy was held to be an extension. Transformation of the metals into gold corresponds to the transformation of men into pure human beings. It is the destruction and purification of the baser metal to extract pure gold. Black, white, red and gold are alchemical colours. Alchemy is based on the marriage of the female element sulphur and the male element mercury. when I go away, I will remove my body from the scene and the love will be purely spiritual by the alchemy of this parting. On My Mistress Coming to Bed Parting allows to achieve a perfect love. In the second stanza, sighs and tears are dangerous to the relationship, because people can be drowned in them. trepidation of the spheres it is far more remote and delicate, but more powerful, and yet purer. Sublunary changeable love. Dull stupid. Earth is in the centre of the Ptolemaic universe. So if the woman is therefore the centre, the fixed foot, the man eventually reaches the ultimate. The further the man goes, the better their love. If woman is not constant in this image, the whole thing will fail. What is the metaphysical conceit? The physical love can grow stronger, however powerful can be this spiritual love, and the physical love will grow stronger as the lover returns back home. In the Copernican interpretation, where woman is the sun, and man is the earth, and sun is gold, going further away from the sun is losing the perfection. The Flea by John Donne. The metaphysical conceit a shocking, unexpected, shocking metaphor. Doctor Samuel Johnson lives of poets. He accused them of showing off their wit and erudition. The metaphysical conceit is a combination of dissimilar images.

T. S. Eliot wrote an essay in which he praised them for unified sensibility. It is the ability to connect intellect and emotion. the more shocking metaphors, the more extreme emotions, these two things are linked together. Metaphysical conceit is a label belonging to that single epoch. Contemporary name for such is daring metaphor. The Pulley is used to show the relation between man and god. This is the explanation why a man needs god, if a man were perfect as god is, he would not need god. George Herbert, The Collar The collar restrictions, subjection to some rules. Wine Bacchus Corn, wheat Demeter, fertility goddess To reject the rope of sands we are trapped by our own convictions and mind, so lets reject it. The one that agrees on everything, deserves their fate. And one word from god is enough to end priests rebellion. The simplicity of renaissance rhetoric. We rejoin god by means of simplicity. The end of the poem seems to be divided on two parts, one is more chaotic and rebellious and the other is more orderly. Sprezzatura a calculation beneath the apparent, seeming spontaneity. It seems that the first part is in chaos, and yet it has an intricate design. The first six lines are rhymed a b c b a d. And then, when we have b a d, the lines linked with these rhymes are about that rebellion, which is already rejected. Poetry without stanzaic and metrical restriction becomes a bad poetry. And life without restrains becomes a bad life. N O N O, or M N M N in the last lines. His poetry seems to be chaotic when Herbert rebels with god, and returns to order when he is reconciled. Wine in Christianity blood of Christ that will purify us. Corn if you love your life here, you die. If you hate your life here, you will gain an eternal life. This is supposedly the meaning of this. If we accept restrictions here, we shall receive everlasting bliss. It is simply about the connection between the poetry and the spiritual connection to god. And the simplicity of his language, that marks the rhetoric of renaissance. Generally speaking, protestants like to be simpler Catholics. They demand simplicity.