John-Donne-and-Conceit-in-His-Poem-The-Flea-《跳蚤》中的奇思妙喻

V.ConclusionDonne’sconceitistheuniquefeatureofhispoetry.Thestudiesofhisconceithelptopromoteunderstandingandappreciationfromafreshperspectiveandprovidethereaderswithalargerspacefortherecreationofthereaders.TheapproachwhichmainlybasedonTesauro’sconceittheoryaswellasthedifferentrepresentativetheoriesofDonne’sconceitsurelyenablesthereaderstoformabetter,clearer“new-found”—inDonne’swords—pictureofhisuniquepositionasametaphysicalpoetinEnglishliteraryhistory.Donne’sadoptionofconceitinTheFlea,touchesuponvariousimages,concepts,imparting“thesensationofthingsastheyareperceivedandnotastheyareknown”.ThestudiesoftheconceitprovideonemoregroundtokeepupwiththefastspeedofDonne’s“quickwit”,toillustratethemagnificentimagesandtoovercomethedifficultieswhichincreasesthelengthofintellectualperceptionandaestheticappreciation.HisuseofconceitisbaseduponDonne’severydaypoetry.However,therearevariousvaluabletheoriesonconceit,thoughdifferentinviewpointandperspective,yetofferusfreshgroundtobetterappreciateDonne’spoem,especiallyRosemondTuve’slogicalimagerytheory,AustinWarrenandMarioPraz’semblemtheory.ThedesiretodrawcorrespondencesbetweenheterogeneoustingsandshowtheunityofwhatappearsfragmentaryandthedesiretodevelopthesecorrespondencesareboundtogivetotheresultantimagerysomeofthosequalitiesWarrendiscerninthepoetsofwit.Hisconceit,asamatteroffact,fromtimetotime,iswidelyappreciatedandcommentedonbymajorpoetsandcriticssuchasSamuelJohnson,GeorgeWilliamson,SamuelTaylorColeridge,T.S.Eliot,FrankeWarnke,JohnCarey,RosemondTuve,AustinWarren,MarioPraz,andmanyothers.Itcanbeimaginedthat,withoutthegreateffortsofthesecritics,Donnewouldstillhavebeeninoblivion.Theycommentedonhisconceit,witindifferentanglesandformtheirownvarioustheories.Actually,itisthevaluablecriticalworksofthesecriticsthatbroughtDonne’sstudiestoanewlevel.Bibliography[1]Abrams,H.M.TheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature[M].NewYork:W.W.Norton&Company,Inc.,1974.[2]Abrams,H.M.AGlossaryofLiteraryTerms[M].Beijing:ForeignLanguageTeachingandResearchPress,2004.[3]Bloom,Harold.ed.,JohnDonneandtheSeventeenthCenturyMetaphysicalPoets[M].NewYork:ChelseaHousePublishers,1986.[4]Brodsky,Claudia.“Donne:TheImagingoftheLogicalConceit”,ELH,Vol.49,No.4,TheJohns[5]Brower,ReubenA.ed.,Twentieth-CenturyLiteratureinRetrospect[M].Massachusetts:Harvard[6]Chang,Yaoxin.ed.TheHistoryofAmericanLiterature[M].Tianjin:NankaiUniversityPress,1991.[7]Clemens,A.L.JohnDonne'sPoetryAuthoritiesTexts,Criticism[M].NewYork:W.W.Norton&Company,Inc.,1992.[8]Docherty,Thomas.JohnDonne,Undone[M].LondonandNewYork:MethuenCo.Ltd,1986.[9]Emden,JoanVan.TheMetaphysicalPoets[J],HampshireandLondon:MacmillianEducationLtd.,1986.[10]Espy,WillardR.TheGardenofEloquence[M].[11]Fussell,Paul.PoeticMetreandPoeticForm[M].NewYork:RandomHouse,Inc.,1969.[12]Gardner,Helen.ed.,JohnDonne:ACollectionofCriticalEssays[M].N.J.:Prentice-Hall,Inc.,1962.[13]Gardner,Helen.ReligiousandLiterature[M].Oxford:Oxford[14]Hillyer,RobertSilliman.ed.,TheCompletePoetryandProseofJohnDonne[M].NewYork:TheModernLibrary,1941.[15]Hughes,RichardE.TheProgressoftheSoul:theInteriorCareerofJohnDonne[M].NewYork:WilliamMorrowandCompany,Inc.,1968.[16]Hu,Jialuan.TheStarryHeavens:EnglishRenaissancePoetryandTraditionalCosmology[M].Beijing:Peking[17]Mckevlin,DennisJ.ALectureinLove'sPhilosophy[J].Lanham,NewYorkandLondon:UniversityPressofAmerica,Inc.,1984.[18]Parfitt,George.EnglishPoetryoftheSeventeenthCentury[M].LondonandNewYork:LongmanGroupLimited,1985.[19]Roberts,JohnR.JohnDonneAnAnnotatedBibliographyofModernCriticism1968-1978[M].Columbia&London:Universityof[20]S.L.Bethell.TwoStreamsfromHelicon,[M]NewYork:LongmanGroupLimited,1981.[21]Tayler,EdwardW.Donne'sIdeaofaWoman:StructureandMeaninginTheAnniversaries[M].Columbia[22]Wei,Yuqi.ed.,NewT