Concept of love & divine & elements of it in air and angel and a hymn to god father

Literary presentation, in which the types of Love by John Donne are also discussed. and also where the concept of love is depicted and how A Hymn to God Father is the Divine poem.

1. C oncept o f L ove & D ivine & e lements o f it in A ir A ngel & A H ymn t o G od F ather. By: R ind A rshad A li 0306-0037703

2. Introduction About the author (John Donne) John Donne born in 1572 and died in 1631 . was a Catholic by birth born and after that in his middle age he was become Anglicanism. In the age of 12 years he was admitted in Oxford University from where he didn’t get degree because of Catholicism. For completing the degree he got admission in another University of Washington in 1590s. John Donne

3. Introduction About the author (John Donne) He became the secretory of Sir Thomas. Where he met his niece Anne More, with whom he got a secret marriage in 1601. Because of this he was imprisoned by her father George More lately. Sometimes in his writings his life is seen. He mostly wrote about the love. somehow about religion. His religious work is about 160 in counting. By occupations, John Donne was poet, Priest as well as a lawyer John Donne

4. Concept of Love (John Donne’s views) According to him Love is like a strong feeling or endless liking toward someone or something that never ends. For john Donne, love is stunning and idyllic state or intangible thing. He focused on love and use love as a theme in his many works that’s why he is known as the love poet. John Donne divides love into different types in his poetry . Ardent Love Platonic Love Spiritual Love Flirtatious Love Carnal Love or physical love John Donne

5. Ardent Love In this concept of love he shows the strong feelings of love. In which a love In this love, a lover cannot bear or tolerate any interruption of anybody between him and his beloved does many things for his beloved. He does not like to welcome to anyone, either that’s natural or unnatural. Types of Love Platonic Love platonic love was introduced first by Plato in his dialogue 'Symposiums'. His love represents as to make feel happy to people in religious mediation towards divinity . The platonic love is based on spiritual affection . He is great worshiper of platonic love . Great example is (The Relique Poem)

6. Spiritual Love John Donne is greatly a proponent of spiritual love. For John Donne love is not the name of a relation between two bodies but it can be the extreme form of happiness. According to him the spiritual love is the combination of two souls. where two lovers remain intoxicate in the trance of love when they communicate with each other . ( A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Poem) Types of Love Flirtatious Love Flirtatious attractiveness of love cannot pure. It looks like a pure love but not as like that. This one is also an aspect of being ardent love. Donne is greatly proud of his love that has great quality which attract the attention of people.

7. Carnal Love or physical love John Donne is not only an adulatory idealist of spiritual love but also a believer of physical love. He believes that physical love is happened with an existence or with a shape . As he describes that a soul cannot exist without a body; as spiritual love cannot be possible without a bodily love . However, he finds his love in a body and had fixed itself in the lips, eyes and brows of a person . He praises and worships his beloved even without knowing her name and face. (Air and Angels Poem). Types of Love

8. Love in the Air and Angels The depiction of Love in the poem Air and Angels is a controversy. sometimes the spiritual love is found in this poem while sometimes carnal or physical love is seen. He depicted the love in two variations. As it doesn’t have any specified direction of air. The love of women is in this regard , While he compares the love of men with the angel. he says the as a person loves an angel without seeing it. A man’s love is same like it that he never sees any shape or specific beauty for loving anybody. Air and Angel

9. Concept of Divinity Plato’s concept about the divine is ‘highest good’ and the Aristotle’s idea the ‘Oneness of One’ or the Hegelian ‘Absolute Spirit’. John Donne was also inspired from the Plato’s concept which John Donne preserve the dimension of spirituality or divinity by reflecting religious experiences and practices by himself . The concept of divinity means the originating source of being as a whole within the spiritual feelings and practices of religion Divinity’s concept

10. Divinity in A Hymn to God Father John Donne was the divine preacher as his poetry marked with apparently erotic and divine sensuality. Sensuality and spirituality are Donne’s dual aspects, a mixture of the divine and mundane, may be seen in his work as well as in his personality . In ‘A Hymn to God Father’ the elements of divinity are found, in which he discusses about the sin . In this regard Donne requests to God to forgive him from his committed sins and future sins . A Hymn to God Father

11. Divinity in A Hymn to God Father In which he tells to about the sin that is not his fault but it happened even before he was born. He requests to God that when God has finished forgiving him for these sins, still the poet will consider that He (God) isn’t quite done yet because in future or coming days he will commit more sins. He tells about the sins in which he has included other people due to him that they are done with a sin, as he became their source to commit the sin . Sometime I try to avoid the sin but ultimately I have to involve in the sins. When I will return to you for that I have some kind of fear that might I will die on the border of heaven and hell, but I don’t want to die on the border of hell and heaven. A Hymn to God Father

12. Thank You !