The Conceits in John Donnes Love Poetry开题报告

 2022-07-29 14:23:16

1. 研究目的与意义

As one of the seventeenth century poets, John Donne, the precursor of the metaphysical poetry, is well known for his unexpected metaphor, usually called conceit. Sometimes the employing of distinctive metaphor makes his poems obscure and bizarre. However, it is witty and ingenious metaphor that turns abstract concept into concrete one and attracts readers to go deep into the theme.One of the most significant features of John Donne''s poetry is his conceit. He sought new ideas and liked to write something unprecedented. He often captured novelty from a variety of 'new philosophy' and daily life and then put two different objects in one context, so the relationship between the two is intimate and secretive. They can also be explained to each other on the content. These metaphors are unbelievable at first reading but when you think again after you close the book, you will feel it quite right. These all reflect John Donne''s conceit.This paper will analyze some poems of John Donne and explore his conceit in order to give some inspirations to people who want to do some poetry writings. Donne is a great British poet, and he created a new path, thus the creation of English poetry is more colorful and vibrant. He introduced a new angle of view to the creation of modernist poetry, which had a great influence on modern poetry. So I hope this paper can help us on how to look for images from daily life and extensive knowledge and employ metaphor innovatively.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

Research contents: John Donne is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne''s style is characterized by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne''s poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits. This paper will introduce John Donne and the metaphysical poets and their background. Then some poems of John Donne will be analyzed in it, like The Flea, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Good Morrow and so on. His writing techniques will also be mentioned.Key problem: How to appreciate the beauty and charm of John Donne#8217;s conceits and look for images from daily life and extensive knowledge? What can people learn from his writing features and how to employ them into our own poetry？Outline: 1. Introduction2. Conceits in love poetry2.1 The Flea 2.2 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning2.3 The Good Morrow3. Features of conceit3.1 A way of thinking3.2 Images3.3 Comparison4.The function of conceit4.1 Striking effect4.2 Exalt cleverness4.3 Grasp readers#8217; attention5. Conclusion

3. 国内外研究现状

The time a few Chinese scholars spent on John Donne#8217;s poems is short and basically, it is said that #8220;Metaphysical poetry has long been unrelated to readers except for the people of universities and research institutions#8221; and #8220;Donne''s research is a patent for a very small number of professors and scholars#8221;. In the early study of Donne in our country, Professor Yang Zhouhan and Professor Hu Jialuan introduced, commented and appreciated the sermon and poetry of Donne respectively. The history of literature written by Professor Wang Zuoliang and Professor He Qishen gave a more detailed introduction to Donne. Bian Zhilin, Wang Jianzhao, Qiu Xiaolong, feibai translate some Donne#8217;s poems which they were interested in. After entering twenty-first Century, the study of Donne in our country has made great progress. It has realized the transformation from a single, textual basic research to a diversified, open research across multiple subjects and different professional knowledge domains. This shows that the study of John Donne in our country has a qualitative leap on the whole.His work has received much criticism over the years, especially concerning his metaphysical form. Donne is generally considered the most prominent member of the metaphysical poets, a phrase coined in 1781 by Samuel Johnson, following a comment on Donne by John Dryden. Dryden had written of Donne in 1693: 'He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.' In Life of Cowley (from Samuel Johnson''s 1781 work of biography and criticism Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets), Johnson refers to the beginning of the seventeenth century in which there 'appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets'. Donne''s immediate successors in poetry therefore tended to regard his works with ambivalence, with the Neoclassical poets regarding his conceits as abuse of the metaphor. However he was revived by Romantic poets such as Coleridge and Browning, though his more recent revival in the early twentieth century by poets such as T. S. Eliot and critics like F R Leavis tended to portray him, with approval, as an anti-Romantic. After Donne''s death, a number of poetical tributes were paid to him, of which one of the principal (and most difficult to follow) was his friend Lord Herbert of Cherbury''s 'Elegy for Doctor Donne'. Posthumous editions of Donne''s poems were accompanied by several 'Elegies upon the Author' over the course of the next two centuries. Six of these were written by fellow churchmen, others by such courtly writers as Thomas Carew, Sidney Godolphin and Endymion Porter. In 1963 came Joseph Brodsky''s 'The Great Elegy for John Donne'.Beginning in the 20th century, several historical novels appeared taking as their subject various episodes in Donne''s life. His courtship of Anne More is the subject of Elizabeth Gray Vining''s Take Heed of Loving Me: A novel about John Donne (1963) and Maeve Haran''s The Lady and the Poet (2010). Both characters also make interspersed appearances in Mary Novik''s Conceit (2007), where the main focus is on their rebellious daughter Pegge. English treatments include Garry O''Connor''s Death''s Duel: a novel of John Donne (2015), which deals with the poet as a young man. He also plays a significant role in Christie Dickason''s The Noble Assassin (2012), a novel based on the life of Donne''s patron and (the author claims) his lover, Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford. Finally there is Bryan Crockett''s Love''s Alchemy: a John Donne Mystery (2015), in which the poet, blackmailed into service in Robert Cecil''s network of spies, attempts to avert political disaster and at the same time outwit Cecil.

4. 计划与进度安排

The paper will be written in the order of the outline. The first step of writing the paper is to study the concerning papers about John Donne and his love poetry, and then makes a comprehensive analysis of related papers. As the paper mainly focuses on the conceit in the poems, it is necessary to take several John Donne#8217;s love poems as examples. Of course, conceits are widely used in those poems, so the paper will concentrate on the feature and function of conceit by analyzing his poems.2022．10--2022.11 Search for the reference and choose the topic2022.11--2022.12 Write the thesis proposal2022.12--2022.3 Write the first draft of the paper2022.3--2022.4 Perfect the first draft2022.4--2022.5 Submit the final draft2022.5--2022.6 The thesis defense

5. 参考文献

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