John Donne - The transformations of John Donne
Transformation of language:
Nature:
● Twickenham Garden the poem - ‘Spider love’ takes the ordinary and makes it more,
giving it 8 legs and constantly moving and condition of paradise
● Hamlet - like the flowers of Ophelia - transubstantiation, theatre transforms the idea
of poetry
● The garden - as an uncanny space (garden of Eden) - resolute truth any
transubstantiation of it is unwanted and difficult to come across, we search for the
truth but there is no truth - garden as the womb only place that has limits chaos and
heaven are infinite sense that is loss more powerful as tangible - falling away garden
is human and identifiable paradox of beauty and extreme emotions nature cannot give
you what you want
Maps:
● Hymn of god, my god, my sickness - tangible and asserting of existing ‘i’ plus also
being ‘a map’ paradox, tangible and abstract mapping something we cannot touch -
the world
● Maps are political and territorial
● People are simultaneously maps - colonising a woman's body and land, denmark land
and owning women similar
● Empire - pro or anti empire, we are contained within ourselves and experience
everything without having to exploit -popisosis of empire
● Tangible as allowed to experience empire in a particular place
● Justification of where the mind is - good friday 1613 riding westward, no empirical
west, why need to be empirical gender - sense of the infinite which he creates
● Paradoxes writes in 1611 while travelling in Europe happy to be a widower with a
live wife - therefore which one is truth
● Fluidity of maps and gender means the person itself can transform
Empirical truth
● Able to see gender as less confining as he is a man, impossible for women to have that
perspective as women has that restriction
● The flea - so easy to have that argument, easier for a man to diverse gender roles and
integrate between them, he gives the women a sense of power and control however
uses satire to flip that
● Crushing the flea commands her power however he has the power of argument can be
both intimidating and empowering - being taken serious is dangerous, monopolises
the conversation never give the women time to speak and therefore can only be done
through actions - women isn’t allowed a voice as passive object that why argument is
so effective
Transformation of language:
Nature:
● Twickenham Garden the poem - ‘Spider love’ takes the ordinary and makes it more,
giving it 8 legs and constantly moving and condition of paradise
● Hamlet - like the flowers of Ophelia - transubstantiation, theatre transforms the idea
of poetry
● The garden - as an uncanny space (garden of Eden) - resolute truth any
transubstantiation of it is unwanted and difficult to come across, we search for the
truth but there is no truth - garden as the womb only place that has limits chaos and
heaven are infinite sense that is loss more powerful as tangible - falling away garden
is human and identifiable paradox of beauty and extreme emotions nature cannot give
you what you want
Maps:
● Hymn of god, my god, my sickness - tangible and asserting of existing ‘i’ plus also
being ‘a map’ paradox, tangible and abstract mapping something we cannot touch -
the world
● Maps are political and territorial
● People are simultaneously maps - colonising a woman's body and land, denmark land
and owning women similar
● Empire - pro or anti empire, we are contained within ourselves and experience
everything without having to exploit -popisosis of empire
● Tangible as allowed to experience empire in a particular place
● Justification of where the mind is - good friday 1613 riding westward, no empirical
west, why need to be empirical gender - sense of the infinite which he creates
● Paradoxes writes in 1611 while travelling in Europe happy to be a widower with a
live wife - therefore which one is truth
● Fluidity of maps and gender means the person itself can transform
Empirical truth
● Able to see gender as less confining as he is a man, impossible for women to have that
perspective as women has that restriction
● The flea - so easy to have that argument, easier for a man to diverse gender roles and
integrate between them, he gives the women a sense of power and control however
uses satire to flip that
● Crushing the flea commands her power however he has the power of argument can be
both intimidating and empowering - being taken serious is dangerous, monopolises
the conversation never give the women time to speak and therefore can only be done
through actions - women isn’t allowed a voice as passive object that why argument is
so effective
