1/31/2012 7:59:00 AM There is no breaking with the real worlds constraints The trying on of positions and characters, the

creation of personas Micro-genres resolve themselves into distinctions with the larger genres The notion of conceit is close to the notion of argument, although they are not the same thing. Rather the conceit is more the central concept Not necessarily a vivid or concrete image, but they tend to be as well/the most noticeable ones The Apparition cant really say that the ghost can be a conceit. Hes not even dead yet, its only a supposition that he is a ghost. Seems like a game with personas and what personas involve. There is nobody behind the mask This poem is self cancelling - so this is in a sense similar to The Fleahah There really wasnt a relationship between the woman and the persona to begin with. But really cant tell with this persona. He seems very worked up over what no one can really say. Is he a liar, melodramatic?

Seems like a scene out of a raunchy jacobian or Elizabethan comedy. Not necessarily reality though Conjured up a dramatic interlude and then at the end he is done. It is an exercise in working through. It was that easy to let her go even though earlier he was dying Projection onto women of all this inconsistency and fickleness Seducer, celebrant, cynic : Donnes personas will fall into one of these categories Passion as the unitary subject Could be a progression of passion. the personas correspond with before, during, and after. The importance of image in the poems Sophistry: quick fire and not lasting rhetorical terms. Can argue. What is the problem with passion? Donne is exploring on how to make something enduring out of something transient. How to make the moment last, something that lyrics poems are trying to do.

The Canonization to canonize a person is to make him a saint. Canon means a standard or module. There are canonical scriptures This poem begins with a life coach who also is a ruthless reality check. Stating that this is a waste of time Want to canonize his love. It is ironic that this life-destroying and time wasting thing is what he wants to be canonized. o Make a new and almost paradoxical argument. This is a poetical routine, an opening maneuver. It can be an exercise in dismissal. It is a dismissive survey of things that you might focus on. o By mentioning the things that you dont want to focus on, it ties into the poem in important ways Walter pater: achieving ecstasy has found life/reached the peak of life Importance to notice the claims made: the intensity of this love/connection has pulled in everything around it o This is similar to the absorption of the mystic divine. More about the power of poetry than the power of passion. shows what poetry can do, but also what true passion can do First stanza: leave me alone. Second stanza: Im not hurting anyone Third stanza: fulcrum stanza. Its not what they said that it would be. Fourth stanza: we will make it last forever through words and poetry Third stanza: talking about sex in a quasi-sacramental way. Hes flirting with this Christian understanding of the mysteries of two being one flesh. Last two lines: hes asserting a power of transforming vision on the physical. There is a morning after without disenchantment. What should have burnt out you did not. This turns the table on the moralists. Vivid focal images: the phoenix and burnt out fly o The moth to the candle image. The taper is a candle and the fly is drawn to it and burned in it. So it is bringing up the ability of passion to consume

o a brief and deadly pleasure o the phoenix is itself an image for both cases. It burns itself to die and then reborn. Already part of the blasphemous rendition of the moralist idea of the moth and candle. The image of Christ is associated with the phoenix. The idea of the morning after is very important in all these poems. The withstanding of passion to the everyday Lovers Infiniteness talking about inclusive and all encompassing type of love. He focuses then on a demanding love. The more oppressive it seems to be loves infiniteness turns into infinite jealousy that Donne works out Twicknam Garden A play for pity It is a real place. It belonged to one of Donnes patrons. She was a woman of brilliance, glamour, and wealth. This is an exercise in him pitching himself to her. Here he is trying to make himself a sort of example, center of attention A reckoning with petrarchanism, a sort of reckoning with frustration

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