Assignment of Analysis of Song: Sweetest Love I Do Not Go

Name: Monika Makwana
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Paper- 1: The Renaissance Literature
Topic: Analysis of Song: Sweetest Love I Do Not Go
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Academy: SMT. S. B. Gardi Department of English

Analysis of Song: sweetest Love I Do Not Go

     A metaphysical poetry Song: sweetest Love I Do Not Go written by John Donne. The poem is Love Poem. John Donne’s most poems based on theme of Love and his beloved. In this poetry poet tells his beloved that he was not leaving because he was tired of the relationship, instead, he must go as a duty ,Eventually, the sun departs every night but returns every morning and he has a much shorter distance to travel. In the third stanza he suggested that his duty to leave was unstoppable cannot lengthen his life, while bad fortune will shorten it, actually, fighting bad fortune only shared one’s strength will it, as the Sighs and Cries the lover complains that if, he was really within her, she was one letting him go because he was part of her tears and breath. He ask her not to fear evil they may befall him while he was gone and besides, they keep each alive in their hearts and therefore are never truly parted. He expresses his love for his wife. He used the device of hyperbole by saying that his wife sighs, she sighs his soul. The poet tells that his is the best part of his life and he express is love for her.

• John Donne

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in Church of England. He was born in London in 22 January 1572. He died in 31 March 1631. He belongs to a recusant Roman family, when practiced of that religion was in England. He is third of six children and also his father named john Donne, was of Welsh descent and a warden of the Ironmongers Company in the city of London. John Donne was considered the pre eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His Work were noted for his strong, sensual style, sonnets, love poems, religious poem, Latin translations, Elegies, epigrams, songs, satire and sermons.

His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, in particular compared to that of his contemporaries.

John Donne’s style was characterized by abrupt opening and various paradox, ironies and dislocations, these aspects, along with his frequent dramatic or every day speech rhythms and his tense syst  and his tough eloquent, are both reaction against smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaption into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques.


Jones Donne's Famous poetry's

• The Flea
• Song: Sweetest Love I Do Not Go
• The Ecstasy
• The Dream
• Death, be not proud

His Metaphysical poetry’s are based on Love. His major work is theme of Love. In his poem ‘Song: sweetest Love I Do Not Go’ he expresses feeling of love for his wife his beloved.

The Metaphysical poetry

The term ‘Metaphysical’ first used by Dr. Samuel Johnson, Metaphysical term originally coined by Dr. Jonson was intended to be used as pejorative. By the time he came to his Lives of the Most Eminent English poets, the work of the metaphysical had become somewhat passee, and it is in the course of his chapter on Abraham Cowley that Johnson ably summarizes the general disdain for the metaphysical school which existed in the word English letters at that particular time.
“The word ‘Meta’ means beyond and ‘Physics’ means physical nature. Metaphysical means poetry that goes beyond the physical word of the senses and explore the spiritual word”

• Definition

“The term metaphysical and metaphysics in poetry is the fruit of renaissance tree, becoming over ripe approaching pure science.”  John Donne is the leader founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry.

What is Metaphysical poetry?
The Metaphysical poetry is concerned with whole experience of Man. In metaphysical poetry write about Love and religion and reality, feeling of man of love.
Metaphysical poetry is in particularly marked its by bold and ingenious conceit by comexity and subtlety of thought and a playful intellect. It connected to harsh and striking expression, and their being set in a dramatic situation is another feature colloquial diction together with rough speech like rhythms is it’s important for feature. Frequent use of paradox and the use of knowledge or experience along with witty turning and twisting of an idea is also other important feature of metaphysical poetry. Similarly, blending of emotion with intellect related to unified sensibility and the tendency to use ‘heterogeneous idea yoked by violence together’ as Samuel Johnson is commented is its central feature.

• Metaphysical poet’s

• Major poets

John Donne (1572 – 1631)
Henry Vaughan (1622 – 1695)
Abraham Cowley (1621 – 1667)
George Herbert (1593 – 1649)
Richard Crashaw (1613 – 1649)
John Cleveland (1613 – 1658)
Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)
Saint Robert Southwell (1561 – 1595)

• Metaphysical poetry’s

Major poetry’s
        ‘Death, Not be Proud’
        ‘The Dream’
        ‘The Flea’
        ‘Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go’
        ‘The Sun Rising’
        ‘The Ecstasy’
        ‘The Anniversary’

Song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go

              This poem dealt with the theme of Love. Poet tells about his love that he has to leave for a while, she should not district him on where he is about to go. Poet convinces his beloved that even death cannot separate true lovers.
This poet is made up of five stanzas. Donne keeps the rhymes in this poem by using his rhyme and meter structure.
Analysis

“Sweetest Love, I do not go,

For weariness of three”

The present song of John Donne deals with the theme of love but  here love which is  express is  of the moment  of Separation.

Sweetest Love, I do not go,      

             For weariness of tree,

          Nor in hope the world can show

       A fitter love for me;

                  But since that I

             Must die at last, ‘tis best 

                    To use myself in jest
hus by feign’d deaths to die.   

            the  present  song  is  Addressed  by a  lover to his beloved when  the moment comes for him to part with his believing by the way of death the lover tries to convince her not to be sad ,sigh and weak because sooner or later all lover have to face the moment of the lovers tries to convince his beloved that he is going away from not because he is tired of her or with a hope that this world can present a letter companion for him the lovers considers her physical death nothing more than a fake death because physical death cannot put and end to love of a couple the lovers try to convince her not to be sad by giving the example of the sun.

“Yesternight the sun went hence,

      And yet is here today;

He hath no desire nor sense,

                Nor half so short a way;

                       Then fear not me

But believe that I shall make

Speedier journeys, since I take

              More wings and spurs than he”
       

  the sun that had gone  away the last night has all ready come back though the has no desire sense to come back so early compand to the sun the has a sense and a desire to come back and him path is not so long as this the path of the sun this is how the lover tries to assure his beloved just like the sun he would come back again he would like to make a speedier journey with the wing of desire to come back so there is no cause for the beloved to be sad the lover thou comments on how weak mankind  is though mankind makes it claim to be very powerful,

O how feeble is man’s power

            That if good fortune fall,

Cannot add another hour,     

              Not a lost hour recall!

                               But come bad chance

And we join to it our strength,

And we teach it art and length,

        Itself o’er us to advance

 if man is passing  through happy time he  cannot add one moment more to his happy at the sometime man is not capable to bring back happy days. At the most man can remember those happy days but when those days are remembered it adds to pain of that person the lover tries to his beloved mentally for separation by the way of death it both are together even death cannot destroy that love.

“When thou sigh’st, thou sig’st not windsi

But sigh’s my soul away;

When thou weep’st, unkindly kind,

My life’s blood doth decay.

It cannot be

That thou lov’st me, as thou say’st,

If in thine my life thou waste,

That art the best of me’

The lover make is special request to his beloved not to sigh or shade tears when she sigh he feels as if his soul would come out because his soul in her if see weeps he feel that his blood is coming out in the form of tears he tells her not to waste his soul and blood in this manner if she really loves me.

“Let us not dividing heart

                        Forethink me an ill;

Destiny may take thy part,

                                       And may thy fears fulfil;

                                            But think that we

Are but turn’d aside to sleep;

They who one another keep

         Alive, ne’er parted be”.

Final request  of the lovers to his love is that she should not thing anything bad about him he tries to assure he that if they fate has decided to separate them they would remain sigh by side in there grave it would be the death of body but not of that love.
The present poem’s sings the glory of immortal love nothing, can separate those lovers whose is true the lover in the present poem considers death as fake death because for lover if there is any unfortunate incident learning to separation that is the real death for lovers.

• Themes

The present poem deals with the theme of ‘love’ in which the lover addressees to his beloved. It is a poem about the lover’s emotions went it is time of him to separate himself from his beloved on account of his forth coming death. The lover is of the opinion those who love truly can never be separate even by death.
This poem is best example of Donne’s metaphysical poetry. It is employs image like ‘The Sun’, ‘the wings’, ‘Destiny’ and ‘Divine’ giving a metaphysical touch to this poem. General idea or implied theme is that taking advantage of the love one has in their lifetime because death will come eventually.

• Language or Diction

In this poem John Donne followed verse form or pattern is ‘ABABCDDC’ and used the connotative word like, sun, wings, spurs, these are used for describes situation of lover for his beloved and imagery like, a sunrise, a sunset that give us delight  In this poem describes paradox that  the speaker tells  his love that she should imagine what life would be like without him since he will die someday by pretending that he is going on this journey for life although it is for a small amount of time. The Allusions that ‘Apollo’ used in this poem’s used the figurative language for example ‘conceit’ and ‘hyperbole’. The poem describes symbols are ‘sun’, ‘fortune’, blood’, and ‘wings’. 

• Structure

The poem “Song: Sweetest love, I do not go” had written in five stanzas and each with a rhyme scheme of ‘ababcddc’. Each stanza has 8 lines; it is a lyric poem which means that it is a poem that expresses emotion and is inspired by Music or song.
The metric and rhythmic structure is mostly steady and following a somewhat consistent pattern of unaccounted and accented syllables and line lengths, each stanza begins with a trochaic trimester line. The fifth stanza is a short iambic line comprised of four syllables. The other lines that comprise each stanza vary between trimster and tetrameter and iambic and trochaic rhythms.

Conclusion
The poem ‘Song: Sweetest Love, I do not go’ by John Donne. In this poem John Donne describes the impulse of love poet had a beloved whom he loved very much. He is afraid of a parting from his beloved. In this poem a poet tries to convince to his beloved that about his own death for she doesn’t sigh, Donne consoles his wife by assuring her that he is not leaving her. And John Donne is following the pattern to personal in this poem. Donne is expresses his lover for his wife and e tells is wife is the best part of his life and he wanted to her to represent all that is beautiful in his life. Donne shows the power of love and the oneness of relationship.