英国文学作品分析Doc1.docx

Song (John Donne)This poem chiefly concerns the lack of constancy in women. The tone taken is one of gentle cynicism and mocking. John Donne has lost his naive views of love. His confidence in the power of love has been waned and now he appears more cautious and almost bitter. Each stanza is nine lines, it allows for the more complex and abstract ideas, which are archetypal of metaphysical poetry.The first stanza is the most forceful, employing the imperative to achieve a sense of command. The second stanza is full of convoluted images and hyperbole; The final stanza begins in a sardonic manner. He appears to be expressing the opinion that a woman of character and beauty is implausible. On his blindness (John Milton)In this sonnet, the speaker meditates on the fact that he has become blind. He expresses his frustration at being prevented by his disability from serving God as well as he desires to.?All the lines in the poem are in iambic pentameter. the first eight lines of this poem describe the poet’s meditation alone in the dark. The last six lines show the vast bright and infinite space, open the realm of the narrow, change the concept of pain into a calm tone. Form this poem, there will be more profound appreciation in life: there are many tremendously pain in life, the people with courage and wisdom, suffering the gate of torture in silence, never give up hope and stand.Tiger (William Blake)“the tiger” originally called “the tyger”, is a lyric poem focusing on the nature of God and his creations. It was published in a collection entitled songs of experience. The poem consists of six quatrains in rhymed couplets. the question in the final stanza repeats the wording of the first stanza. The poem is more about the creator of the tiger than it is about the tiger itself. in contemplating the terrible ferocity and awesome symmetry of the tiger, the speaker is at a loss to explain how the same God who made the lamb could make the tiger. Hence, humans are incapable of