A Fever and Fervor in John Donne’s Elegy

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School essay

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2 pages

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Published date :

08/21/2007

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Table of Contents A Fever and Fervor in John Donne’s Elegy Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The aim of an elegy
  3. The speaker's corrupting love
  4. Conclusion

Abstract

donne's poem "A fever" is an elaborate blend of narrative designs. donne uses the venerable poetic device of elegiac stanza to express mourning for the (anticipated) death of a lover from a fever. There is an explicit surface meaning to this poem as well as implicit sub-textual meanings. On the surface, donne's poem reads as a pre-elegy to the lover who suffers from this illness. It follows the traditional elegy format in which narration begins with death and rises at the end to alleviate the pain of death. However, due to a variety of elements, the poem twists into something more suggestive, and the fever becomes an analogy for sexual passion that is ultimately spent and lost. Thus, by combining elegy with innuendo of sexual desire, donne's "A fever" is a sort of assault on or corruption of both the classic elegy form as well as the traditional idea of love itself.

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