Pavi92 |
|
|  John Donne was born in London in 1572 into a Catholic family. In 1601 he married a 16-17 years-old girl, who was the lady-in-wait of the Queen. She was also the niece of his employer, Thomas Egerton. So, John Donne was dismissed from his employment and imprisoned. He had, with his wife, 12 children but his wife died when the last child bore. Then, he became priest to maintain his kids and king gives him a vicarage and lands, so he had money. Then, he became a dean of St. Paul and he became a good preacher, and so he respect people now. Donne is innovative(new) because he hasn’t fear about God; moreover he wrote about love in a baroque way: his vision was completely different from Petrarch and Dante, who follows the rule of Dolce Stil Novo. He didn’t suffer for his lover. He uses wit and conceit, that are other ways to says Discordia concors. He is innovative also for this reason: he use complicated images, typical of Baroque period, and complex metaphors. We can understand that he is a Baroque poet by his blasphemous tone and his paradoxes(such as “Death: you will die”). Donne is not simple, clear, but he likes hyperboles and exaggerations. Donne was called Metaphysical by Samuel Johnson(a writer of the Enlightenment, a period of clarity, simplicity, balance, control, equilibrium) in derision. He was mocked by him. |
| | |
