... ranging emotionally - Earnest and challenging, even when appearing casual, never trivial - Struggle between spiritual and bodily impulses - New use of old poetic forms: 1. Aubade 2. Sonnet 3. Elegy 4. Valediction - Use of syllogism (illogicality of argument) DONNE Life Donne had roots going deep into medieval Catholicism, born to well-to-do Roman Catholic parents. He lived in Elizabethan England, a thriving ... and contraction of language is used to signify a similar contraction of the world: onto a map; into a lover (The Sunne Rising); into the poles of a relationship (A Valediction: fo...

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