چکیده:
John Donne’s “Holy Sonnets” and “Songs and Sonnets” have been considered to
be the sites of genuine transgression from the tradition and therefore, have been
interpreted through numerous modern and postmodern perspectives. In the
present study, such rupturous departures from the tradition will be reviewed by
focusing on the emotional ambiguity of songs and sonnets. Such ambiguities will
depict Donne’s ambivalent and iridescent regards towards holy and secular love,
attesting how he has obfuscated the boundaries between these two concepts. In
the same line of argument, futility of utilization of reason in paradoxical aporias
will be observed, ascertaining the irresolvable nature of the sonnets.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The poem "Batter my heart", amplifying the plea of "Good Friday, 1613 Riding Westward": "O thinke mee worth thine anger, punish mee", instantiates the masochistic strivings whereby Donne tried to subject the whole of himself to God. It attempts to enact, through its solicitation of divine aggression and rape, the conversion process described by William Perkins: "he that will beleeve in Christ must be annihilated, that is he must be bruised and battered to a flat nothing (Stachniewski, 1981, pp.
13-15); but her death is only incidental to the real subject of the poem, a condition Donne introduces to explain his present feelings toward God: Since she whome I lov'd, hath payd her last debt, To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead, And her soule early into heaven ravished, Wholly in heavenly things my mind is sett.
223-252) Now that I am reviewing the headings and discussions of this paper, the only thing I could put as the conclusion is that John Donne in both of these sequences was a man with lots of questions in mind; the very questions we as post modern readers are involved with; affirmation or flight from tradition, sacrifice of persona’s agency for the sake of discourse he wishes to produce, the very open ended ness of the sequences at exactly the points we think that a conclusion could be accomplished and the sense of duality and deconstructive nature of arguments, even scriptural certainties were some of the issues that could make Donne and the persona of his poems as a lost, indefinite citizen of 20th century; a person who explicitly withholds the moment of substantiation."