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1、AppreciationofthepoemAValediction:ForbiddingMourning08英语师范（1）周帆32JohnDonne(1572–1631),borninaRomanCatholicfamily,receivedhiseducationatOxfordandCambridgeandlaterstudiedlawatLincoln’sInn.HewasaJacobeanpoetandpreacher,representativeofthemetaphysicalpoetsoft
2、heperiod.Hisworks,notablefortheirrealisticandsensualstyle,includesonnets,lovepoetry,religiouspoems,Latintranslations,epigrams,elegies,songs,satiresandsermons.Hispoetryisnotedforitsvibrancyoflanguageandinventivenessofmetaphor,comparedwiththatofhiscontempor
3、aries.HeisfamousforhisHolySonnets.Thefollowingisoneofhislovepoems:AValediction:ForbiddingMourningAsvirtuousmenpassmildlyaway,Andwhispertotheirsoulstogo,Whilstsomeoftheirsadfriendsdosay,Thebreathgoesnow,andsomesay,No: Soletusmelt,andmakenonoise,Notear-floo
4、ds,norsigh-tempestsmove,T’wereprofanationofourjoysTotellthelaietyourlove. -6-Movingofth’earthbringsharmsandfears,Menreckonwhatitdidandmeant;Buttrepidationofthespheres,Thoughgreaterfar,isinnocent. Dullsublunarylovers’love(Whosesoulissense)cannotadmitAbsenc
5、e,becauseitdothremoveThosethingswhichelementedit.ButwebyalovesomuchrefinedThatourselvesknownotwhatitis,Inter-assuredofthemind,Careless,eyes,lips,andhandstomiss. Ourtwosoulstherefore,whichareone,ThoughImustgo,endurenotyetAbreach,butanexpansion,Likegoldtoai
6、rythinnessbeat.-6- Iftheybetwo,theyaretwosoAsstifftwincompassesaretwo;Thysoul,thefixedfoot,makesnoshowTomove,butdoth,ifth’otherdo.Andthoughitinthecentersit,Yetwhentheotherfardothroam,Itleansandhearkensafterit,Andgrowserect,asthatcomeshome.Suchwiltthoubeto
7、me,whomustLiketh’otherfoot,obliquelyrunThyfirmnessmakesmycirclejust,AndmakesmeendwhereIbegun.Thispoemwaspublishedafterhisdeathin1633.Ithasninequatrains.Onequatrainisastanzathatconsistsoffourlines.Itiswritteniniambicpentameter,andisoneofthemostbeautifullov
8、epoems.ThetitleAValediction:ForbiddingMourningreflectsthecontentofthepiece:afarewell.Atthattime,hiswifewaspregnant,soDonnewrotethislovepoemtohiswifeasacomfortbeforeheleftforFrancewithhisboss.Thisarticlefirstlyanalys
