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约翰·多恩John Donne（1572 - 1631）
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约翰·多恩是文艺复兴时期的一个著名的诗人。他极具诗歌天赋，开创了玄学派，从此掀起了一股新的诗歌浪潮。他本人所作新颖，深刻。他的出人意料的比喻令人吃惊之余深为叹服。他多变的格律，口语化诗体使人耳目一新。总之在诗歌创作中，约翰·多恩形成了一系列属于他自己的诗歌特色。关键词：诗歌特色 奇思妙喻 宗教信仰
John Donne (1572-1631) was the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets and a churchman famous for his spellbinding sermons.Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects. He wrote cynical verse about inconstancy, poems about true love, Neoplatonic lyrics on the mystical union of lovers' souls and bodies and brilliant satires and hymns depicting his own spiritual struggles. The two Anniversaries - An Anatomy of the World (1611) and Of the Progress of the Soul (1612)--are elegies for 15-year-old Elizabeth Drury.Whatever the subject, Donne's poems reveal the same characteristics that typified the work of the metaphysical poets: dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; paradox; subtle argumentation; surprising contrasts; intricate psychological analysis; and striking imagery selected from nontraditional areas such as law, physiology, scholastic philosophy, and mathematics.Obsessed with the idea of death, Donne preached what was called his own funeral sermon, Death's Duel just a few weeks before he died in London on March 31, 1631.