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39. The Metaphysical Poets.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Chris and Suzanne wrap up their cluster on
Sex by looking at some
Metaphysical Poets —namely, Andrew Marvell and John Donne. How and why do
they use philosophical ideas and argumentation in their poetry? What is going
on, formally and structurally? And is it erotic, and if so… where do the
erotic interests lie? Women? Nature? God? The poets themselves?
Show Notes.
The selection of poems we
looked at. [PDF]
An anthology of Metaphysical poetry.
[Bookshop.]
More poems by Marvell
and Donne.
A review of a recent biography of Andrew
Marvell [Nigel Smith: Andrew Marvell: The
Chameleon].
A recent acquisition of a manuscript of Donne poems that circulated through
his coterie.
Next: Mart Crowley: The Boys in the Band.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon. [Thank
you!]
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By Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Chris Piuma
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Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Chris and Suzanne wrap up their cluster on
Sex by looking at some
Metaphysical Poets —namely, Andrew Marvell and John Donne. How and why do
they use philosophical ideas and argumentation in their poetry? What is going
on, formally and structurally? And is it erotic, and if so… where do the
erotic interests lie? Women? Nature? God? The poets themselves?
Show Notes.
The selection of poems we
looked at. [PDF]
An anthology of Metaphysical poetry.
[Bookshop.]
More poems by Marvell
and Donne.
A review of a recent biography of Andrew
Marvell [Nigel Smith: Andrew Marvell: The
Chameleon].
A recent acquisition of a manuscript of Donne poems that circulated through
his coterie.
Next: Mart Crowley: The Boys in the Band.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon. [Thank
you!]
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