holy sonnet XVII stage II

XVII.

Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead,
And her soul early into heaven ravishèd,
Wholly on heavenly things my mind is set.
Here the admiring her my mind did whet
To seek thee, God; so streams do show the head;
But though I have found thee, and thou my thirst hast fed,
A holy thirsty dropsy melts me yet.
But why should I beg more love, whenas thou
Dost woo my soul, for hers offering all thine:
And dost not only fear lest I allow
My love to saints and angels, things divine,
But in thy tender jealousy dost doubt
Lest the world, flesh, yea, devil put thee out.

Donne, John. Poems of John Donne. vol I.
E. K. Chambers, ed. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896. 162-163.



Bovan, Jonquil. “Donne’s Debt to Petrarch in His Holy Sonnet 10.”
Notes and Queries (N&Q) 1998 Mar; 45 (243) (1): 34.

This source gives a comparison of the similarities between Donne’s Sonnet and the Sonnets of Petrarch. Bovan, the author of this article, is a published literary critic and lists a respectable group of sources for his article. Thus, his article is a credible source. The information that is in the source can be used to compare the sonnet with works of other poets. This allows the reader to have better background information in order to fully understand the annotations.

Linsley, Joy L. "A Holy Puzzle: Donne's 'Holy Sonnet XVII'." John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross. 202-213. Conway, AR: UCA, 1995. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Web. 5 Mar. 2010.

This source goes into the background of Donne as well as giving a certain perspective on the deeper meaning behind sonnet XVII. Linsley is a literary critic who is published in several well known journals such as The Journal of Thomas Moore. Thus, this article should have some credibility. This source will help analyze the deeper meaning behind the poem as well as help analyze how Donne’s past affects his sonnets. This article will work very well with Bovan’s and Faulkner’s article as a supplement to what they talk about.

Faulkner, Eleanor; Daniels, Edgar F. “Donne's Holy Sonnets XVII (Since she whome I lovd), 1-2.” Explicator (Richmond, VA) 1976; 34: Item 68.

This source analyses the deeper meaning behind the sonnet as it gives a new perspective on what Donne meant when he wrote the sonnet. Faulkner is a well known literary critic within the literary community so this article has credibility. I will use this article in order to better understand the meaning behind the sonnet and will serve as a basis for the analysis I will do on Sonnet XVII.

Oliver, Antonio S. Views of Death in Donne’s Poetry. Luminarium. ©1999. .
This source compares “Death” and the meaning of death between the different holy sonnets. The author gives many credible sources in his bibliography so the article should be credible. I will use this source to compare holy sonnet XVII to the other sonnets that Donne wrote. This is great because all of the other sources only deal with one specific sonnet.

Hirsh, Edward. How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry. 1999.

This book is a source on the workings of lyrical poetry. Donne’s sonnets are considered lyrical poems so this will help me understand the nuisances of the poem. Hirsh is a well known and respected poetry critic so this source will be credible. I will use this source to further understand some of the reasoning behind Donne’s choices through out the poem.

My annotation will most likely be in the form of a website. I want to have some sort of flash animation incorporated into the site. The annotations will mainly deal with Death and how this sonnet compares with the other sonnets on similar subjects.