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John Donne and Phoebe Power: Dystopian Waves Translated into a Spiritual Utopia

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها

Abstract

Abstract: In his lone melancholy, John Donne begs for an eternal ever- flowering crown in return for his offered one born out of white sincerity, growing into prayer and praise and woven by his words depicting Christ`s life with its major stations ending with coronation. Standing on the other end of the skein is Phoebe Power seeing the clouded Christian vision of one man dying because of the rest, condensed, twisted and flooding the temporal situation of the present in which we stand as eye witnesses to the death of the group because of an invisible virus. How does she interpret such a reversal of positions?! Optimistic as her words sound, Power sees a utopian bond shinning out of the calamity that bears an enigmatic similarity to Donne`s and whose tongue is the emblematic crown. Her optimism is guarded by a duty she sets on humanity`s shoulders towards the eco-system. This paper sets the two poems of Donne`s and Power`s in comparison, not for unveiling similarities and differences, though these are essential stations which interpretation uses as landmarks, but for a new-historicist and Post –Marxist reading of coronation as an archetypal nodal idea and as a process reflected in the two literary
works: La Corona for John Donne and A Corona for Phoebe Power.

DOI

10.21608/artman.2021.93906.1323

Keywords

New Historicism, Post Marxism, corona, Utopia, dystopia

Authors

First Name

Basma

Last Name

Saleh

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Affiliation

Mostafa Kamel Egypt

Email

basmahosney@mans.edu.eg

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Tanta

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Volume

70

Article Issue

70

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23202

Issue Date

2022-01-01

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2021-09-01

Publish Date

2022-01-01

Page Start

43

Page End

58

Print ISSN

1687-448X

Online ISSN

2974-3451

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العلوم الانسانیة الأدبیة واللغات

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1,540

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Journal

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مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة

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John Donne and Phoebe Power: Dystopian Waves Translated into a Spiritual Utopia

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23 Jan 2023