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Show 142 lSidney, Defence, 2L aurltsen, 42. p. . 1275 points out that the speaker troubled by the irrationality and apparent purposelessness of his own behavior." But I think he misreads in claiming, p. 128, that "the is "puzzled and p. deply of tongues in which he dlfferent from Coscus." Babylonian.confuson not essentlally speaks are 3Sr. M. Geraldine's argument about Christian is relevant here. Denying that the images of sin, atonement, and the like, are either symbol or allegory in this poem, she argues that whatever meaning the poem has inheres in the images themselves insofar as they are concrete references to a kno'\VIl reality: "The tiresome business of going to court is not compared to, or made the symbol for the "cross" of life's vicissitudes: it is the And he enlarges his theme by makcross this ing activity representative of, or one with, all of life's minute crucifixions the real experience measured in terms of the spiritual and the reli£ious worked back into the real, God constantIy revealing Himself in the Book of "symbolism" .. . Creatures "Donne's . . . . ot_itiafI p. 31.. 4Gluttony is subsumed by lust; covetousness, The first and anger are children of glory. from group is from our concupisci.ble nature, the second, our irascible. jealousy, SHoward Erskine-Hill points out that Pope recog " an allusion as nized "not alone/My lonenesse is to the ret.irement of Scipio Africanus in De officiis; in ]j?h"Q Donne's Satyre IV, "Courtiers out of Horace: Donne: Essays in Celebration, ed. A. J. Smith (London: ... 1\1e thuen,--PTnT-;-ppn-;2br. 6Roo-er Lawrence 1967), V. pp. a M. Geraldine warning. divine through experience returned sin court to ("Donne' uncertain, Schoolmaster The? (1570), ed. Press, 64-65. 7Sr. as Ascham °Ryan (Ithca-:-Cornell-0iliversity s but a and once second '.' !is-0_:_--' 1ncl1Dcd p. lS believes he was Thus, that the hrough and dream t.t e r kie I:i J]_ i trance bel1cvc that the s _ to served once ,:-nd yet ream) d h i s second c ornm i tune 30). the taught twice, , 11 |
