배경
Farewell Poem: JohnDonne이 여행을 떠나면서 그의 아내 Anne에게 써서 바친시
형식
Iambic Tetrameter (약강 4보격): 시의 내용과 상반되는 가볍고 밝은 분위기
abab, cdcd, … rhyme: 속삭이는 듯한 담화조
주제
Mutual Love: 영육일체의 승화된 사랑
상식적으로
Moving of th’ earth < trepidation of the spheres
하지
JohnDonne을 위시하여 지적 복합성, 이미지의 조화를 추구한 일단의 시인들
‘형이상학파’라는 용어
- 신고전주의 시인 John Dryden이 JohnDonne의 연애시를 형이상학을
지나치게 즐겨 사용한다고 비판하며 최초로 사용
- 18세기 비평가 겸 시인 Samuel Johnson이 이들의 시가 학식을 지나
John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
In
Discovered" bythe poet Henry Vaughan (Olor Iscanus)
Used "Orinda" as a pen-name
Wrote poetry principally to Mary Aubrey, her "Rosania“
After Mary's marriage Katharine's chief poetic "correspondent" became Anne Owen, or "Lucasia"
Poems bythe Incomparable Mrs. K.P. (1664), which was withdrawn a few days after publication
Cotterell's "authorized" edition of thePoems appeared in
bythe example of Dante. Here, we think, is a poem which represents an exact intellectual system; Dante has a "philosophy," therefore every poet as great as Dante has a philosophy too. Dante had behind him the system of St. Thomas, to which his poem corresponds point to point. Therefore, Shakespeare and behind him Seneca, or Montaigne, or Machiavelli; and if his work does not correspond point