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John Donne (/ˈdʌn/ DUN) (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He 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 characterised 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.
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"Good Morrowe" is a poem written by George Gascoigne in 1557 and set to music by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1929. Elgar titled it in modern English "Good Morrow" with the subtitle "A simple Carol for His Majesty's happy recovery", and it is a setting for unaccompanied four-part choir (SATB), though a piano accompanied is provided.
The work was written to celebrate the recovery of King George V from serious illness. In October 1929, Elgar, as Master of the King's Musick, was invited by Walford Davies (organist at St. George's Chapel, Windsor and himself next holder of that post) to write an appropriate work to be performed by the choir of St. George's at their Annual Concert in Windsor on 9 December 1929. Elgar conducted the choir, and the performance was broadcast to the nation.
Elgar found the poem, called "You that have spent the silent night" in a volume of poems by George Gascoigne entitled "A hundreth Sundrie Floures bound up in one small Posie". from which he extracted five verses. He gave the poem a hymn-like setting, possibly from music he had written in his youth, which he called 'just a simple tune'.
The Sun (in Greek: Helios, in Latin: Sol) is the star at the center of the Solar System and is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. It is a nearly perfect spherical ball of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. Its diameter is about 109 times that of Earth, and it has a mass about 330,000 times that of Earth, accounting for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.About three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen; the rest is mostly helium, with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron.
The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V) based on spectral class and it is informally referred to as a yellow dwarf. It formed approximately 4.567 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud. Most of this matter gathered in the center, whereas the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System. The central mass became increasingly hot and dense, eventually initiating nuclear fusion in its core. It is thought that almost all stars form by this process.
"The Sun Rising" is a hit single by UK band The Beloved. It was their first top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at #26 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1989. "The Sun Rising" appears on their top 20 album Happiness. The song was re-released in 1997 and reached #31 in the UK. The female vocal that has been sampled in "The Sun Rising" is from a song titled "O Euchari" which appears on the album "A Feather On The Breath Of God" composed by Abbess Hildegard Of Bingen and sung by Emily van Evera who was a member of the vocal ensemble Gothic Voices in 1981 when the album "A Feather On The Breath Of God" was originally recorded. The "O Euchari" sample was not credited on the release of "The Sun Rising" single. An out of court settlement was reached between WEA and the "Gothic Voices" record label "Hyperion Records" for this omission. The song was also used in a commercial for the breakfast cereal Alpen.
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Genres: ,This is a video I made for my english glass where we were told to make a presentation to class about the poet John Donne. Hope you like it. This contains extracts from John Donne Biography Publisher A&E; Television Networks http://www.biography.com/people/john-donne-9277090#profile
This Lecture is on John Donne who is Known for his Metaphysical Poetry.Here meaning of Metaphysical poetry is explained As well as vivid discussion on john donne poetry is made. Objectives : 1. To understand the concept of Metaphysical poetry. 2. To learn about poet John Donne.
In this lecture, Dr Anna Beer (University of Oxford) thinks about Donne’s poetry about love, focusing in particular on the poems The Sun Rising, The Good Morrow and The Canonization.
Dr. Meenakshi Thakur, Assistant Professor, Biyani girls College explained about The poem of Donne in which he challenges that no woman on this earth will be honest and beautiful at the same time. www.gurukpo.com, www.biyanicolleges.org
Click http://drandrewbarker.com for transcript and notes of the lecture and analysis above. A love poem from the morning. Upon waking, a man feels a new kind of love for the woman he is with. This poem, "The Good Morrow", is what he tells her. What was their relationship like? How has it changed? What will their love be like in the future? The lecture looks at both the confidence and vulnerability of the one who speaks the beautiful lines that make up this declaration of heightened love. Note: Analysis of the line "Suckled on country pleasures childishly" contains profanity (34:40 -- 36:54).
A quick sketch of John Donne's life up until his writing of the Holy Sonnets, to give you a sense of the contradictions at the heart of his character.
The Flea - A poem by John Donne. About the poem - 'The Flea' is a complex yet almost hilarious conversation between two lovers, where the young man uses his exceptionally persuasive skills to coax his lady love to sleep with him. Throughout the poem Donne uses a skilled combination of tone, suggestive words and double meaning, to present an argument which is so clever that it might actually lead to the speaker having his way. About the poet - John Donne (19 June 1572 -- 31 March 1631) was an English poet, satirist, lawyer. He is considered as the representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vib...
A famous poem by the metaphysical poet John Donne, born in 1572. It was originally written as part of 23 meditations produced while he was ill, that were about the experience of illness itself. Peter Hague is a Digital Artist, Graphic Designer and Film Maker known as e-brink - Check out my digital art site: http://www.e-brink.co.uk
The Sun Rising - A poem by John Donne. About the poem - The Sun Rising is one of Donne's popular and widely read and enjoyed love poems. It is a love poem of an unusual kind. In this poem, composed in the form of a dramatic monologue, the poet lover reprimands the Sun and calls it names for disturbing love making. About the poet - John Donne (19 June 1572 -- 31 March 1631) was an English poet, satirist, lawyer. He is considered as the representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, 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. For more vid...
Click to subscribe - - - - http://goo.gl/V0wpjW No Man Is An Island by John Donne (used as the epigraph in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway) No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were: Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
A Brief Introduction Of John Donne by Munawar Ahmad Saeed http://englishhelplineforall.blogspot.com contactmunawar@gmail.com times college, times college samanabad, punjab university Lahore, punjab university course outline, punjab university MA english Notes, punjab university MA english lecture, ............................. punjab university ma english private admission 2017 last date, punjab university ma english part 1 date sheet 2017, punjab university ma english syllabus 2017, punjab university ma english part 1 result 2016, english literature notes, history of english literature, literary Terms english grammar and composition american literature history of english literature literature books Classic English Literature Reading List English Literature Dictionary audio lectures o...
This is the second part of my lecture on A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. I have made every effort to provide a deep insight into the poem while keeping the lecture as simple as possible. That is why no previous knowledge of poetry is necessary for a full understanding of it. I hope you find it useful. Part One - A Preview Part Two - The Three Lives of John Donne, The Mysterious Meaning of Metaphysical Part Three - An Introduction to the Poem, Stanza: 1 & 2 Part Four - Stanza: 3,4 & 5 Part Five - Stanza: 6,7,8,& 9; Comparative Considerations
I hope to die peacefully in my sleep with a smile on my face, like my grandfather did, not terrified and screaming like his passengers. Last night, in bed, my wife told me she had bought a pair of gardening shears. I replied that we already had a pair of gardening shears. She explained that these shears were of such a wonderful design and of such beauty that I could not fail to be impressed when I saw them. I said that I didn't want to see them, that her description was enough together with the knowledge that there was such a wonderful pair of garden shears that gave her such pleasure: and henceforth I would bask in the glow of ownership without ever once seeing these shears; it would become for me a religious belief, cool and Zen. (I don't like gardening) When a neophyte asked the...
Vivian, a graduate student, discusses the meaning and punctuation of John Dunne's "Holy Sonnet X" with her professor, Dr. Ashford. The sonnet is often known by its first line, "Death, Be Not Proud." Visit my channel for more films that quote poetry.
A reading of Donne's poem rejecting criticism of his love and saying that it is a holy state.
Notes & First Audio Lecture of MA English John Donne's Good Morrow PU UOS BZU IUB AJKU Gujrat: Lecturer MK Bhutta Classical Poetry: Love and divine Poems of John Donne: Good Morrow, Sun Rising, Go and Catch a Falling Star, Morning, Weeping...........
This is the tenth of Donne's nineteen Holy Sonnets. Taken from 'Six Centuries of Verse' (1984), episode six "Metaphysical and Devotional Poets 1590-1670".
In this video, we hear from Sophie Ratcliffe, a lecturer in English, about her own experience of bereavement, and about how one poem in particular offered some consolation in her grief. The poem was John Donne’s ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’, which you can read below. Whereas Lucy found some solace in a text that reflected her own feelings of loss, Sophie was comforted by the reassuring sentiment of Donne’s poem. Donne’s ‘Valediction’ suggests that people who love each other can remain together even when they are apart. Indeed, through the poem’s distinctively witty tone, it is as though the 17th century poet John Donne is still with us when we read this poem today, and for a teenager coming to terms with loss, this notion was a comforting one. Find out more about this course on htt...
This Lecture is on John Donne who is Known for his Metaphysical Poetry.Here meaning of Metaphysical poetry is explained As well as vivid discussion on john donne poetry is made. Objectives : 1. To understand the concept of Metaphysical poetry. 2. To learn about poet John Donne.
Click http://drandrewbarker.com for transcript and notes of the lecture and analysis above. A love poem from the morning. Upon waking, a man feels a new kind of love for the woman he is with. This poem, "The Good Morrow", is what he tells her. What was their relationship like? How has it changed? What will their love be like in the future? The lecture looks at both the confidence and vulnerability of the one who speaks the beautiful lines that make up this declaration of heightened love. Note: Analysis of the line "Suckled on country pleasures childishly" contains profanity (34:40 -- 36:54).
A Brief Introduction Of John Donne by Munawar Ahmad Saeed http://englishhelplineforall.blogspot.com contactmunawar@gmail.com times college, times college samanabad, punjab university Lahore, punjab university course outline, punjab university MA english Notes, punjab university MA english lecture, ............................. punjab university ma english private admission 2017 last date, punjab university ma english part 1 date sheet 2017, punjab university ma english syllabus 2017, punjab university ma english part 1 result 2016, english literature notes, history of english literature, literary Terms english grammar and composition american literature history of english literature literature books Classic English Literature Reading List English Literature Dictionary audio lectures o...
Notes & First Audio Lecture of MA English John Donne's Good Morrow PU UOS BZU IUB AJKU Gujrat: Lecturer MK Bhutta Classical Poetry: Love and divine Poems of John Donne: Good Morrow, Sun Rising, Go and Catch a Falling Star, Morning, Weeping...........
https://www.iitutor.com John Donne (1573 -- 1631). John Donne was a British Renaissance poet famous for his poems on life, death and religion. His work is often dubbed as 'metaphysical' poetry due to his complex relationship with God and romantic themes. If poisonous minerals - This poem is Donne's argument about why death is not to be feared. Death is personified and belittled, ending with the paradox that 'death shall die'. This is tied in with Christian belief that death is met with eternal life, and so is not really a 'death' at all. The title reflects the crude personification of death; that it is proud of the fear often attached with it. Despite the title and a sense of connotation centred on death -- it is more a poem based on meditation. In this poem Donne's persona imagines hi...
Annotation of Holy Sonnet X in class on 18/6/2015 at Pacific Hills Christian School. This is poem 1 of 9 set for study for HSC Module A Exploring Connections.
Subject : English Paper : English Literature 1590-1798
The works of John Donne, one of England's foremost poets and priests, were brought to life in words and music at St Paul's Cathedral on April 26 2012. St Paul's in association with Poet in the City and Winning Words, presented the special event in the cathedral where Donne was Dean from 1621-31. Speakers: Peter McCullough - lay canon of St Paul's and Professor of English at Lincoln College, Oxford Jo Shapcott - award-winning poet and President of the Poetry Society Mark Oakley - Canon Treasurer of St Paul's Mary Morrissey -- Lecturer in English, Reading University In addition, Andrew Carwood, world-famous tenor and Director of Music at St Paul's will sing Benjamin Britten's unforgettable settings of Donne's sonnets.
This episode looks at the subject matter, themes and structures of John Donne's poem The Sun Rising.
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John Donn as a Metaphysical Poet by Dr. Vikas Jaaulkar For Studnet of Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University Bhopal B.A 1st year ,English Literature 1st Paper , 2nd Unit Published By EMPRC, MPBOU
Yesterday you thought the flame has flickered again
A feeling from the past you’d recognize
But maybe tomorrow morning I won’t be there
Cos if you’re looking for the answer, then it’s
Right before your eyes
Look into the mirror, who is it you see?
The face of someone now as cold as ice
The anger in your mind turns now toward regret
If you’re looking for the answer
Then it’s right before your eyes
When your bed is empty
And you’re thinking of me
Your mind will dwell on all your sacrifice
For surely tomorrow morning, I won’t be there
And if you’re looking for the answer, then it’s