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John Donne Assessment Task A transcript between two critics
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Eliot: Donne most definitely was passionate. ... Through the minute consideration, analysis and precision of language Donne expresses a thoughtful view of what were traditionally considered as purely emotional realms. For Donne these emotional experiences incited passion, and were exhausted in his songs. To say that Donne’s verse is devoid of passion is to say that Donne himself was devoid of emotion. ... They did not want to exhaust their experiences, like Donne they were looking for painless answers. ...
Eliot: Donne canvassed possibilities as opposed to dictating answers. Donne’s verse offered an insight not present in Elizabethan poetry and was often analytical. ... Donne, therefore was the inheritor of the dramatic verse of Marlowe, Webster, Tourneur; he should be read within his historical and literary context and not simply labelled as a “metaphysical” and uncomfortably grafted onto the poetic tradition. Milton and Dryden may have prevailed but Donne will not be eradicated by the slight of Johnson’s hand.
Johnson: It does not require the hand of Johnson to derogate Donne, for he seals his own fate. Donne sought only to offer a concentration of ideas in his poetry rather than engineering his verse around the emotional, to the detriment of his work. As Aristotle so aptly noted, poetry should imitate nature, but, unfortunately, in the pursuit of being witty, of displaying his intelligence and learning, and crafting violent conceits, Donne creates awkward verse which is devoid of emotion and harsh on the ear.
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Title: John Donne Assessment Task A transcript between two critics
Words: 1093
Rating: None
Pages: 4.4
submitted by: impelx
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