death_be_not_proud 死亡,不要骄傲.ppt

Metaphysical poetry - highly intellectual poetry characterized by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression The main themes are love, death, and religion. The chief representative of the school was John Donne Conceit is an elaborate, often extravagant metaphor making an analogy between totally dissimilar things. Love is a spider which dropped into the wine of life, turns it to poison. Characteristics of his poems: dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; subtle argumentation; surprising contrasts; colloquial language; irregular meter; intricate psychological analysis; and striking imagery selected from nontraditional areas such as law, physiology, scholastic philosophy, astronomy and mathematics which endow his poems with learning and wit and also make them difficult to understand. John Donnes masculine, ingenious style is characterized by abrupt openings, paradoxes, dislocations, argumentative structure, and conceits” images. Rebellion against the conventional imagery of the Elizabethan lyric. Poems are intellectually complex Irregular rhythms, stanzas Colloquial, condensed language Use of metaphysical conceit subtle argument Death, Be Not Proud By John Donne --Holy Sonnet 10 Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, 死神，你莫骄傲，尽管有人说你 如何强大，如何可怕，你并不是这样； For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, overthrow (conquer, overcome) [those whom you think you have conquered] Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me; 你以为你把谁谁谁打倒了，其实， 可怜的死神，他们没死；你现在也还杀不死我。 From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, (Sleep is just a picture of death) 休息、睡眠，这些不过是你的写照， 既能给人享受，那你本人提供的一定更多； And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, doe goe = do go 我们最美好的人随你去得越早 Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. Deliverie=freedom 越能