Questions. 1) What are Exctasie and Good according to Platonic and Neo-Platonic views?

1) What are Exctasie and Good according to Platonic and Neo-Platonic views? What is the nature of relations between spiritual and s ensible (and in the context of the poem sensual) due to these philosophic doctrines? Find out what was meant by “This Exstasie doth unperplex … and tell us what we love”? Is there a pattern of aspiring to Good? Give examples, paying attention to the stylistic means as well.

2) What is the difference between “wee said nothing, all the day” and “souls language”. Pay attention to Platonic views. Why “both spake the same”?

3) Do you find the question “But O alas, so long, so fare our bodies why doe wee forbeare?” ambiguous? Prove your point.

4) What is meant by “they (bodies)… nor are dross to us, but alley”.

5) Can you draw the picture of thought development? Is there any dialectics? Find out turning points.

6) What are uniting symbols at the end of the poem? Are there any allusions to Plato’s “Republic”?

7) Consider the use of the “vegetative” metaphors. Can you give any reasons for their possible meaning? Enlist the cases of metaphysical conceit if you find any in the poem.

8) Can you explain “small change” in the final line of the poem? Does Donne use a double plot in the poem?

9) Give precise implications for

- one anothers best (4)

- “our eye-beams” (7)

- entergraft (9)

- propagation (12)

- forbeare (50)

- th’intelligences, they the spheare (52)

- a great Prince (68)

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