Donne Canonization
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The form of John Donne’s The Canonization demonstrates Donne’s complex metrical experiments, witty conceits, and his exploration of religion, philosophy, and cultural myths. Some of these techniques have dated Donne’s poetry for modern readers, but the evangelical spirit of the would-be priest shines through upon close examination. The poem’s form is divided into five stanzas, each baring nine lines of rhyming text with the following rhyme scheme: ABBA, CCC, AA. The metrics vary in each stanza with all lines being of either 10, 8, or 6 beats. The opening, fourth, and seventh lines of each stanza have ten beats. The two lines that come in between the opening and fourth lines and the fourth and seven lines have eight beats, while the two closing lines of each stanza have six. A rhyming couplet, a familiar device of the traditional sonnet, is the form used to close each stanza. The poem is frenetic in pace and humorous in tone, with the unnamed and witty speaker beseeching God, King, and countrymen to “let me love” (Donne 9). While the form of this poem resembles a sonnet, it demonstrates Donne’s preference for metrical experimentation in his poems.The first stanza introduces us to a speaker who is somewhat frenetic and forceful. He seems emotionally rattled over some issue to do with his being denied the right to love. He seems so distraught that he even begins his request to let him love with an appeal to God. He begs of us that we
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of the couple, their love should be permitted “Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still/Litigious men, which quarrels move,/Though she and I do love” (Donne 16-18).
The third stanza begins to describe the nature of the relationship between the speaker and his beloved. Unlike the first two stanzas which seemed designed as an appeal to allow their love, this stanza is designed to tell us what that love is all about. We see that the speaker says the two separate entities become one by their union of love. In this whole union of two souls they are enhance the wit of the phoenix riddle, and they become one neutral whole being as opposed to two opposite genders when they unite in love. We also see the use of metaphor in the poem in the stanza when the speaker compares the love of the couple to two taper candles whose heat and flame when they burn consumes them wholly “We’are tapers too, and at our own cost die,/And we in us find the’eagle and the dove” (Donne 21-22).
In this stanza the speaker moves to a more defiant tone than in the first two stanzas. In the first two stanzas the speaker seemed to beseech our permission to love or request privacy to do so. In this stanza his tone is more defiant and he tells us “Call u
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Approximate Word count = 1505
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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