Transcript for:
John Donne's The Canonization

subscribe now and press the bell icon never miss an update hello in this video we will discuss another poem from your course that is the canonization this video will give you a brief introduction to the poem line by line explanation and then we will also discuss the canonization as a metaphysical poem canonization is a catholic process of being made ascent by the pope such title would have been provocated during that time it was written during elizabethan age people practicing catholics were persecuted and their sons were executed even john dunn's own brother henry died in prison who was arrested for giving sanctuary to a proscribed catholic priest the poem was first published in 1633 in his collection of songs and senators the poem has five stanzas and easterns are consistent of nine lines the rhyme pattern of the poem is abb a cccaa the poet in the poem wishes to be canonized religiously for the way they love each other the poem may be written against the criticism that he received for secretly marrying any more for god to say hold your tongue and let me love or child my palsy or my gout my fire gray hairs are unit fortune fluid we develop your state your mind with thoughts improve hear the word child means to criticize or blame somebody palsy is a shaking disease gout is also a disease that cause painful swelling in the joints in the opening lines the poet is against the behavior of the addressee who is interrupting the poetry's business of love so the poet tells him to be quiet and let him love rather than distracting him from love the poet tells the addressee that he can criticize poetry's palsy or gout the poet tells the addressee that he can also make fun of his old age or his lost fortune the poet suggests the addressee that he can increase his value or can improve his mind by learning different arts like poetry or music take your course get to a place observe his honor or his grace or the king's real or his stamped face contemplate what you will approve so you will let me love stamped means printed or designed contemplate means to think deeply the poet continuously suggests his addressee either to do a course or a job the addressee according the poet can observe the honor or grace of a judge or the king's real or stamped face the poet tells him whatever pleases him he can do but to leave the poet alone to love his blood a loss a loss who is injured by my love what merchant ships have my size drowned who says my tears have overflowed his ground when did my cold's a forward spinning remove the word cold means low temperature of a body the poisoner raises some rhetorical questions to highlight how his love can be damaged to others the poet wonders who could have been harmed by his love neither his size he breathed in love had drowned any of the merchant ships nor have his tears caused floods in the land his goals never delayed the advance of the spring when did the heat switch my venus filled add one more to the plaguey bill soldiers find wars and lawyers find out still litigious men which called this move though she and i do love litigious men men who are ready to take augments to code his favor never added any debt to the plague list the point mean to say that his love has not affected the world in any way though the soldiers will continue fighting in the wars and lawyers will continue to deal with the litigious man the poet and his beloved will continue to love each other so dan has highlighted many disasters in the stanza and none of which could be caused by love call us what you will we are made such by love called me another fly we are tappers too and at our own cost die and we in us find the eagle and the dough tapa is a wood that's used for lighting fires or lamps here it also means candles the pollutant tells the addressee to call them anything whatever he likes they are not bothered by such criticism the poet then tells the addressee that he can call them moths they are candles too and die at their own cost the point says that they have the combined force of eagle and dove in them the eagle represents masculine gender and doubt represents feminine gender phoenix tidal had more wheat by us v2 being one or it so to one neutral thing both sexes fit we die and rise the same and prove mysterious by this love phoenix is a magic bird that lives for several hundred years before hunting itself and then being born again from its ashes the poet then continues to use image and tells that phoenix has more feet than the poet and his beloved the eagle and the dove are united and have formed one neutral phoenix they are phoenix because if they are burnt in love they will rise again from their ashes and will be proved mysterious ride like finnicus by love we can die by it if not live by love and if unfilled for tom's and hers our legend be it will be fit for worse and if no piece of chronicle we prove we will build insolent spirity rooms hers is a long vehicle used for carrying a coffin chronicle means historical record of juventus the poet then says that they can die by love if they are not able to live by it and if their love is unfit for thomas and hers it will be fit for poetry if they could not make any history they will build pretty rooms in lao pomus as well a well-roused urn becomes the greatest ashes as hoff acatoms and by these hymns all shall approve are scandalized for love well wrought means skillfully constructed urn is a container for holding ashes of a dead person just as a well-made urn can hold ashes of a dead person like hoff aka thomas they will home in hymns then all will approve their canonization for love people will remember them as sense of love who needs help in love will pray to them and thus invoke us you whom reverend lao made one another's hermitage you to whom love was peace that now is rich here the word invoke means to mention somebody's name as an example hermitage is a place where a hermit leaves or lived as they will turn sands people who need help will approach to them and will pray to them the levels of next generation will invoke them for their exemplary love people will speak that their love was each other's hermitage people will accept that their love was peaceful but now it has turned rage who did the whole world the soul contract and drove into the glass of your eyes so made such mirrors and such spies that they did all to you epitomize countries towns coats back from above a pattern of your love the word epitomize means to be a perfect example of something the love of the canonized lovers reduces the soul of the world into each other's eyes the eyes of the canonized lovers have transformed into mirrors people look into the mirrors in order to get a reflection of their pure love their love is a perfect example of ideal love countries towns and courts beg for such pattern of love the canonization as a metaphysical poem the poem deals with the subject of love which makes it a metaphysical poem canonization is an example of metaphysical poetry because it is abounded with conceits the poet has employed conceits like flies tappers the eagle the dow and the finnickus the poem is augmented in which the poet claims that he and his lover will be canonized for love and the lovers of future will invoke them for their exemplary love another future of metaphysical poetry is that it begins abruptly the canonization is also earnest and abrupt which catches our attention this use of conceits illusions from the medieval philosophy of metaphysics a dramatic situation and an impassioned monologue make it a metaphysical poem you