LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 7 July 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Imagery in Donne's Songs and Sonnets

Fatima Ali al-Khamisi

Donne’s contemporaries recognized him as a totally original and matchless poet. W. Milgate1 thinks that Donne was Copernicus in poetry: greater than Virgil, Lucan and Tasso put together. He gave a new direction to the literary activity of his age. An intellectuality of temper made Donne grapple with his sensations and emotions and transform them into intellectual moulds and in this lies his unification of sensibility. There is an indiscriminate mixing of the old and the new, although it is with him that the new temper of the Renaissance culture, and the scientific temper, enters poetry.Of all the poets of Jacobean age, he most successfully articulated the scientific ideas of his time. It was an age of intellectual and cultural transition and Donne was analytically concerned with the forces shaping contemporary thought and sensibility. It was this duality of his mind which, more than any thing else, made him the founder of a new school of poetry.

Although Donne’s poetry was not liked by many of his contemporaries and most of his successors, he has inspired and shaped the poetic sensibility of many of the twentieth century poets. Just as Michaelangelo turned out to be a bad model for those who did not possess his strength or vision, Donne became a bad example for his weak successors.

This is only the beginning part of the Masters dissertation. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE DISSERTATION IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Fatima Ali al-Khamisi
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