John Donne and Phoebe Power: Dystopian Waves Translated into a Spiritual Utopia | ||||
| مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة | ||||
| Article 26, Volume 70, Issue 70, January 2022, Page 43-58 PDF (1.24 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: العلوم الانسانیة الأدبیة واللغات | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/artman.2021.93906.1323 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Basma Saleh 
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| Mostafa Kamel Egypt | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| New Historicism; Post Marxism; corona; utopia; dystopia | ||||
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