`Aire and Angels` by John Donne
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It is not surprising that the famous title by Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn, was quoted from one of John Donne`s poems, "The Canonization". For Donne and metaphysical poets might be the starting point from which a set of the new critics have developed their own literary theories. This fact informs us of the basic characteristics of Donne`s poetry. Donne himself and his poetry are involved in the tradition of wit in the sixteenth century, but he builds up his own poetic world by his poetic strength and uniqueness. "Aire and Angels" is one of Donne`s poems which shows the complexity in his poetics. In this essay, I will try to describe the basic situation of the poem and analyse its structural development. Then, I will discuss the problem of signification in this poem.
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The basic structure of the first stanza begins with the speaker, "I"`s confessing speech: "... I loved thee, / Before I knew thy face or name...." As our worship of angels, he says he has loved a woman "in a shapeless flame" only to find "some glorious nothing" in the place where she was. The object of his love in this stage is an abstract entity, to use Derrida`s term, an absent presence or a present absence. It is doubly paradoxical in that she is not only a single referent but also a multiple "some", not only present something but also absent "nothing". This earlier process of love and signification, however, should have instinctively a concrete and bodily entity for love "could nothing doe" but take a body―"limmes of flesh"―as the child of "my soule". Therefore, the speaker―the lover―of this poem allows by the power of "Love" his idea of love to be equipped with the body with "lip, eye, and brow", and then his idea of love―idealistic and transcendental in a sense―gains an earthly cloth, a signifier, as a referent.
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Grierson, Herbert J. C. "Donne`s Love-Poetry." The Poems of John Donne.
Ed. H. J. C. Grierson, Vol. 2. London: The Clarendon P, 1912.
Quoted in John Donne: A Critical Essays. Ed. Helen Gardner. N. J.:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962.
Unger, Leonard. Donne`s Poetry and Modern Criticism. N. Y.: Russell and
Russell, 1962.