famous for his mastery
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Love is a spider which, dropped into the wine of life, turns it to poison.
爱是一只蜘蛛，掉进生命之酒，将生命酿成毒药；
A cannon-ball: By him, as by chain'd shot, whole ranks do die.
爱又是一枚炮弹，一发命中之后，死伤无数；
Devouring fish: He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry.
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❖ 他们并不是一个有组织的文学团体，只有在诗歌风格上有共 同点。
❖ 首先用“玄学派”这名词的是17世纪英国诗人、批评家德莱 顿，他指出多恩这一派诗人太学究气，他们用哲学辩论和说 理的方式写抒情诗，用词怪僻晦涩，韵律不流畅。
Metaphysical Poets
❖"... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike."
❖ Their work was characterized by inventiveness of metaphor.
❖ Their style was characterized by wit and metaphysical conceits—far-fetched or unusual similes or metaphors.
全人类就是一本书。每一个人都是书本中的一个篇章，当 他死去的时候，他的篇章并不是被撕掉了，而是被翻译成 了另外一种更美好的语言。且每一个篇章都是注定被如此 翻译的。
——John Donne
❖ an English poet, satirist and priest.
❖ Works: ❖Songs and Sonnets:
❖ 18世纪英国批评家约翰逊指出“玄学派诗人都是 学者”，他们的“才趣”在诗歌中的表现是“把 截然不同的意象结合在一起，从外表绝不相似的 事物中发现隐藏着的相似点”。
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John Donne
2 Metaphysical poets
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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; When one man dies, One chapter is not torn out of the book, But translated into a better language; And every chapter must be so translated.
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它先叮我，现在又叮你， 我们的血液在它体内溶 和……
Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, nay more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed and marriage temple is…
❖ The Flea ❖ Song : Go and catch a falling star ❖ The Anniversary
❖ Elegies:
❖ The Dream
❖Holy Sonnets:
John Donne ❖ Holy Sonnet X: Death, be not proud （1572 - 1631）
住手，一只跳蚤，三条生命 啊， 它的身体不只是见证我们的 婚约。 还是你和我，我们的婚床， 婚姻的殿堂……
Metaphysical Poets
❖ A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century
❖ Shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them
pre-eminent
representative of the
metaphysical poets.
❖His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language
and inventiveness of
metaphor.
❖He is particularly
John Donne
爱还像吃鱼，他是那主宰一切的刀叉，而我们的 心就是待宰的鱼儿。
Mark but this flea, and mark in this...
看呀，这只跳蚤，叮在这 里……
Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be…