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English Prelim Prep!

Poems
“A Hymn To God, My God, In My Sickness”
“Batter my Heart, three-person’d God”
“Death, be not proud”
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
“The Good Morrow”
“The Sun Rising”

“A Hymn To God, My God, In My Sickness”

The themes and conceits

Highly Religious – about death Cartography – main conceit Crucifixion/Genesis –


and resurrection. Main theme. used in the poem; maps. two Adams inside Donne –
conceit.

The Important Quotes.

“SINCE I am coming to that Holy room”

I tune the instrument here at the door,


And what I must do then, think here before ;

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown


Cosmographers, and I their map
Religious poem about
Per fretum febris, by these straits to die
imminent death. Belief in
God tested at times;
What. shall my West hurt me? As West and East
In all flat maps – and I am one – are one,
uncertainty. The mindset of
So Death doth touch the resurrection someone at death’s door.

All straits, and none but straits, are ways to


them

Christ’s cross and Adams tree, stood in one


place;
Look , Lord, and find both Adams met in me

By these His horns, give me His other crown

“Therefore that He may raise, the Lord throws


down”
“Batter my heart, three-person’d God”
Themes and conceits.

Leading a sinful life = want Conceit of imprisonment Conceit of marriage


for punishment

Important Quotes

Batter my heart, three-person'd God

That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me

Labour to admit you, but O, to no end

But is captived, and proves weak or untrue A religious poem about


painful, passionate love
Yet dearly I love you of God.
But am betroth'd unto your enemy

Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,


Take me to you, imprison me

Except you enthrall me, never shall be free

“Death, be not proud”


Themes and Conceits

Death as an entity - conceit Death is not the end and is Death itself cannot control
not to be feared what kills people

Death, be not proud though some have called thee


Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me


From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men, Religious poem but
And dost with poison, war and sickness dwell talks of death in a way
that could be secular.
Why swell’st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,


And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
Themes and conceits

Compasses – main conceit Natural disasters and He will always come


death – minor conceits home, their love is true

Important Quotes

As virtuous men pass mildly away,


And whisper to their souls to go

So let us melt, and make no noise,


No sigh-tempests, nor tear-floods

‘Twere profanation of our joys,


to tell the laity of our love

But trepidation of the spheres, Love poem with conceits


Though greater far, is innocent of natural disasters.
Compasses most
Dull sublunary lovers’ love -
important!!
Whose soul is sense – cannot admit
Of absence, ‘cause it doth remove
The thing which elemented it

But we by a love so much refined


That ourselves know not what it is

Though I must go, endure not yet


A breach, but an expansion

Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show


To move, but doth, if th’ other do

aAs
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home

Thy firmness makes me circle just,


And makes me end where I begun
“The Good Morrow”
Themes and Conceits

Countryside – freedom, Cartography – maps to New love; newly found;


frivolous conceit show love discovery conceit how he feels about her

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I


Did, till we loved?

But suck’d on country pleasures childishly?


Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?

Newly discovered love;


‘Twas so, but this, all pleasures fancies be,
hence the map
If ever any beauty I did see,
conceit!!
Which I desired, and got, ‘twas but a dream of thee

And now good morrow to our waking souls,

And makes one little room an everywhere,

Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown

Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one

And true plain hearts in the faces rest,

Whatever dies, was not mix’d equally

Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.


“The Sun Rising”
Themes and Conceits

The sun and seasons – conceit The World – They are in their His lover and he are above all
to show lovers’ time own world; they rule it. else and don’t need anyone
else

Important Quotes

Busy old fool, unruly sun,


Why dost thou thus,
through windows and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?

Love all alike, no season knows nor clime,


Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time

Thy beams so reverend and strong,


Why should’st thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
Their love is like their own
Look, and tomorrow late tell me, little world. They don’t
Whether both th’ Indias of spice and mine, need anyone else; not
Be where thou left’st them, or lie here with me even the sun.

She is all states, and all princes I,


Nothing else is.

All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchemy

Thou, sun, art half as happy as we

Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be


To warm the world that’s done, in warming us,
Shine here to us, for thou art everywhere,
This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere

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