RT Article
T1 "In forgetting thou rememb'rest right": Metaphor and Mis-devotion in John Donne's Songs and Sonnets
JF Christianity & literature
VO 68
IS 3
SP 435
OP 453
A1 Prakas, Tessie
LA English
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1669306089
AB This article revisits the preoccupation with impermanence central to John Donne's Songs and Sonnets by considering how Donne's speakers describe themselves as embedded in unstable metaphors of their own making. The speakers in "The Relic" and "A Valediction of my Name in the Window" use metaphor to navigate questions of romantic and erotic agency, deliberately metaphorizing themselves as a strategy for self-preservation that nonetheless renders them profoundly vulnerable. Their fears that their readers may misapprehend their metaphors - whether by accident or by design - are also legible, I argue, as concerns about the power that comes with understanding them correctly as metaphors.
K1 John Donne
K1 Songs and Sonnets
K1 Endurance
K1 figuration
K1 Interaction
K1 Metaphor
K1 mis-devotion
DO 10.1177/0148333119827991