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- Title
THE SEXUAL AND THE SPIRITUAL IN JOHN DONNE'S POETRY: EXPLORING "THE EXTASIE" AND ITS ANALOGUES.
- Authors
Siuli, Shantanu
- Abstract
The main features of Donne's technique arise from his notion of ecstasy. Donne's ecstasy describes how the souls of two lovers leave their bodies during their physical union and mix together before returning to their original bodies. This experience purifies each of the lovers and grants them spiritual fulfillment. Writers such as Marsilio Ficino, St. Teresa of Avila, and others have proposed similar ideas regarding the transformative experience that sex has on the soul. These ideas directly collide with the beliefs of some schools of thought, like Stoicism, where sensual experiences are disfavoured computed to the power of order and reason in discovering spiritual truth. A discussion of the various perspectives on ecstasy is followed by a brief examination of how the notion especially pervades three of Donne's works: "The Extasie," "Holy Sonnet XIV," and "The Good-Morrow. " This paper looks at the poet John Donne's method of incorporating sexual imagery into religious and spiritual contexts. The aim of this paper is to examine how did Donne depict the unification of soul (spiritual) and body (sexual taboo) to idealize and make us realise to the supreme creation of god through his verses.
- Subjects
DONNE, John, 1572-1631; RELIGION &; poetry; ECSTASY (Psychology); SPIRITUALITY; STOICISM
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 4, p20
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article