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John Donne

Song: Go and catch a falling star

BY JOHN DONNE

Go and catch a falling star,

Get with child a mandrake root,

Tell me where all past years are,

Or who cleft the devil's foot,

Teach me to hear mermaids singing,

Or to keep off envy's stinging,

And find

What wind

Serves to advance an honest mind.

If thou beest born to strange sights,

Things invisible to see,

Ride ten thousand days and nights,

Till age snow white hairs on thee,

Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,

All strange wonders that befell thee,

And swear,

No where

Lives a woman true, and fair.

If thou find'st one, let me know,

Such a pilgrimage were sweet;

Yet do not, I would not go,

Though at next door we might meet;

Though she were true, when you met her,

And last, till you write your letter,

Yet she

Will be

False, ere I come, to two, or three.

Notes:

mandrake n. a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers,

yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers

mermaid n. In fairy tales and legends, a mermaid is a woman with a fish's tail

instead of legs, who lives in the sea.

Analyze the metrical form

1. How many lines and stanzas are in the poem?

2. What is the main rhythm, and how about the variation?

3. What is the rhyming scheme?

4. What effect do the two monometer iambic lines give? (“and find, What

wind” “and swear, No where”)

Themes and symbols

the first stanza, the speaker begins with a series of impossible orders to

an unseen actor, what are the orders?

does the speaker want to know in the second stanza?

the last stanza, is there a woman true and honest in the world according

to the speaker?

much imageries are in the poem?

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

别离辞，莫悲伤

As virtuous men pass mildly away，

And whisper to their souls to go，

Whilst some of their sad friends do say，

"The breath goes now，" and some say， "No，"

So let us melt， and make no noise，

No tear-floods， nor sigh-tempests move；

'Twere profanation of our joys

To tell the laity our love.

Moving of the earth brings harms and fears，

Men reckon what it did and meant；

But trepidation of the spheres，

Though greater far， is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love

（Whose soul is sense） cannot admit

Absence， because it doth remove

Those things which elemented it.

But we， by a love so much refined

That our selves know not what it is，

Inter-assured of the mind，

Care less， eyes， lips， and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore， which are one，

Though I must go， endure not yet

A breach， but an expansion.

Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two， they are two so

As stiff twin compasses are two：

Thy soul， the fixed foot， makes no show

To move， but doth， if the other do；

And though it in the center sit，

Yet when the other far doth roam，

It leans， and hearkens after it，

And grows erect， as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me， who must，

Like the other foot， obliquely run；

Thy firmness makes my circle just，

And makes me end where I begun.

Words:

profanation n. degradation of something worthy of respect

laity n. The laity are all the people involved in the work of a church who are not

members of the clergy, monks, or nuns.

trepidation n. trembling or quivering movement

sublunary a. situated between the earth and the moon

compass n.

an instrument for drawing or describing circles, measuring distances

roam v. wander or travel around without having a particular purpose

hearken v. listen to

Themes and symbols

the second stanza, when the speaker say “so let us melt, and make no noise”,

to what does he compares the dying people?

is “moving of the earth” in the third stanza?

line 21 to 24, When one dies, what will happen to him and his lover? A

departure?

does the speaker compares two lovers to the two feet of a compass, what

are the similarities?

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Research: Find out what they are.

The Hebrew Bible/ the Old Testament《希伯来圣经》或《旧约》 Genesis “创世

纪” The New Testament 《新约》

Protestant Christian 基督新教徒

Words：

vanquish

confound

affliction

obdurate

dungeon

deluge

beest

myriads

inflict

dubious

extort

ignominy

v. to defeat someone in a battle completely

a. bewildered, confused

n. a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

a. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

a. a dark cell

n. a heavy rain

prep. be

n. million

n. to make somebody suffer

a. open to doubt or suspicion

v. get sth. by using force, threats, or other unfair or illegal means

n. a state of dishonor

Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit

Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste

Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,

With loss of Eden, till one greater Man

Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, [ 5 ]

Book1 (1-125)

In The first Book, first in brief, Milton reveals the whole Subject, Mans

disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed. Then he

touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather Satan in the Serpent; who

revolting from God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the

command of God driven out of Heaven with all his Crew into the great Deep. This

action is past over, the narration begins in the middle of things, presenting Satan with

his Angels now fallen into Hell, a place of utter darkness, fitly called Chaos: Here

Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonished, after

a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Order and

Dignity lay by him; they confer of their miserable fall.

Sing Heavenly Muse, that on the secret top

Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire

That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,

In the Beginning how the Heavens and Earth

Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill [ 10 ]

Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flowed

Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence

Invoke thy aid to my adventurous Song,

That with no middle flight intends to soar

Above the Aonian Mount, while it pursues [ 15 ]

Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.

And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer

Before all Temples the upright heart and pure,

Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first

Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread [ 20 ]

Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss

And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark

Illumin, what is low raise and support;

That to the highth of this great Argument

I may assert Eternal Providence, [ 25 ]

And justify the ways of God to men.

Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view

Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause

Moved our Grand Parents in that happy State,

Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off [ 30 ]

From their Creator, and transgress his Will

For one restraint, Lords of the World besides?

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

The infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile

Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceived [ 35 ]

The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride

Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his Host

Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring

To set himself in Glory above his Peers,

He trusted to have equaled the most High, [ 40 ]

If he opposed; and with ambitious aim

Against the Throne and Monarchy of God

Raised impious War in Heaevn and Battel proud

With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power

Hurld headlong flaming from the Ethereal Skie [ 45 ]

With hideous ruine and combustion down

To bottomless perdition, there to dwell

In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,

Who durst defy the Omnipotent to Arms.

Read the rest 75 lines on the text book.

教材上的1到75行是原诗中的50到125行。

Note:

greater Man. The Messiah.(Jesus Christ)

ly Muse: Holy Spirit

. Moses, "That Shepherd," received the Law on Mt. Horeb or its spur, Mt.

Sinai

people of Israel.

the Beginning. The opening words of both Genesis (Geneva)（创世纪） and

the Gospel（福音书）of John (Geneva).

. To the haunts of the classical muses near the Castalian spring on Mt.

Parnassus, Milton prefers to claim Mt. Sion and its brooks Kidron and Siloa, a

kind of biblically authorized Parnassus(诗坛).

of Chaos. God created everything out of nothing .

Mount. Mt. Helicon, in Aonia, sacred to the classical muses.

-like. The Holy Spirit appears as a dove.

ng on the vast Abyss. Milton's "brooding" is a better translation of the

Hebrew than the familiar "moved upon the face of the waters" of the Authorized

version of Genesis 1:2.

nt. Milton invites us to imagine the Holy Spirit copulating with the

unformed matter of Chaos ("the vast Abyss").

first. In Homer’s Iliad, Homer invocate to the muse in by writing “Say first”.

restraint. That is, the single ban against eating from the tree of the knowledge

of good and evil (Genesis 2: 17).

of the World. According to Genesis 1:28, human beings were created to

"have dominion" over the rest of creation.

tine. Unbreakable, rocklike.

Questions:

Please read the excerpt from Book 1 of Paradise Lost carefully and think over the

following questions. We will discuss them in groups in our reading class.

story does Milton attempt to tell in this epic?

Shepherd (line 8) is the great prophet Moses of Judaism. Find out his life and

deeds.

’s the muse of the poet?

are Our Grand Parents in line 29? What happened to them?

was an archangel on the side of God in heaven, but what was the reason for

his revolt? (line30-50)

are the serpent and his followers condemned after their defeat?

are the God’s punishments for those rebellious angels?(line59-74 or

textbook:line9-25)

is considered by Satan as “ignominy” and “shame”? (line 115 or textbook

line 66)

ing to what you read from line50-125(textbook line1-75), what is the

portrait of Satan given by Milton?

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