Hymn to God, my God in my Sickness
- Created by: Freddie Kitchen
- Created on: 27-05-13 11:26
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- Hymn to God, my God in my Sickness
- Structure
- ABABB = simplicity and serenity of tone.- predictable-no surprises
- Polysyllabic words = elegant/ eloquent; 'jerusalem' 'Magellan' 'Gibraltar'
- Imagery
- Calm and serene imagery of heaven 'holy room' 'choir' 'saints' - religious tranquility
- Peace; 'pacific sea' 'jerusalem' (heavenly city, also meaning vision of peace), and 'eastern riches (connotations of Gospels for the Kingdom of Heaven
- Location of paradise? G of Eden?
- Peace; 'pacific sea' 'jerusalem' (heavenly city, also meaning vision of peace), and 'eastern riches (connotations of Gospels for the Kingdom of Heaven
- Music; 'made thy music' 'tune the instrument. Musician tuning before entering banqueting hall (macrocosm) microcosm is him preparing prayers or poetry (metapoetic)
- Maps/ cosmography/ discovery. 'I their map' (AO4 belief that each person was a little world like in spheres of Good Friday. He is being discovered/ discovering heaven.
- Death 'south west discovery'- south = hot, west = sunset (darkness/death through heat/ fever 'per fretum febris')
- 'straits' as difficulties of life- narrow and hard to navigate- hard way to salvation
- Religion; death doth touch the resurrection- religion + discovery combined again- cyclical meaning
- Unity of Adams ' met in me' ' one place' 'both'. = equality and unity of him, God, Jesus in death
- Compares himself to Christ; 'purple wrapped receive me lord' = Christs purple blood- robe of royal purple. Also 'by these thorns... crown' = suffering of life.
- Calm and serene imagery of heaven 'holy room' 'choir' 'saints' - religious tranquility
- Techniques
- The word 'before' draws attention to the fact that stanza 1 is separate from the rest.
- syntax of 'I joy'. Monosyllabic line given deep feeling (also excitement of death)
- Questions = fear? or confidence? 'what shall my west hurt me?'
- 'Anyan, Migellan, Gibraltar', 'Japhet, Cham, Shem' - lists and power of 3 quickens pcae but also dismissive as all holy so doesn't matter where he ends up
- imperative 'look lord' = a confidence/ equality
- AO4
- 'made thy music' music made by the heavenly spheres
- 'cosmographers, i their map' = exciting discoveries at time therefore death is exciting
- anatomy and discovery combined - new sciences
- Modern Convention; combination of religion and new science
- Applies new scince 'west and east in all flat maps... are one' - WORLD ROUND. Science of globe making.
- Noah's children Japhet, Cham and Shem given a third of world each after great flood. 3 = holy number (son father holy spirit, heaven hell purgatory)
- Fall of Adam ' sweat' = brought death- reflects Donne's feverish sweat
- 'my soul embrace' = neoplatonism of him and God/ Christ
- Structure
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