[摘要]

约翰·邓恩是十七世纪早期杰出的诗人。他通过夸张的比喻和奇特的隐喻来表达他的思想。在他的诗歌中，许多奇特的意象被用来表达他对爱情、生活、宗教以及死亡的态度。这些意象可以分为三类：圆的意象、动物意象、死亡意象，但是他所运用的大多数意象被认为是牵强附会的。本文就邓恩创作的诸多意象进行分析，以便更好地了解他诗歌中所体现的爱情观、人生观、宗教观与他的生活背景之间的关系。

[关键字] 约翰邓恩；诗歌；意象；玄学派诗歌；奇喻

Abstract:

John Donne is a more thoroughly characteristic figure of the early seventeenth century. He illumines or emphasizes his thought by fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles. He uses large amounts of images in his poems to express his thought and ideas about love, life, religion and death. There are three groups of these images: circle image, animal image, and death image. Most of these images seem to have nothing in common with the thing the poet illustrates. This paper aims to analysis the numerous images created by Donne to understand the relationship among love, life, resurrection and his background better.

Key Words: poem; images; metaphysical poetry; conceits

1. Introduction
John Donne lives in 17th century, which is the period of revolution and restoration. The contradictions between the feudal system and the bourgeoisie had reached its peak and resulted in a revolutionary outburst. Special background and rich life experiences give Donne some literary characteristics. Therefore, he becomes the leading figure of the Metaphysical School.
Donne produced an exceedingly diverse body of work. As the writer of erotic, even bawdy, verses such as The Flea and Elegies XIX: to His Mistress Going to Bed, in which he celebrates the pleasures of the flesh. In addition, as an author of difficult poetic meditations on his faith, suffering and subservience to God, such as Batter My Heart and Hymn to God the Father, Donne’s poems share stylistic qualities and a complicated, questioning worldview. Both Donne’s secular and religious poetry rely on naturalistic, often unexpected arguments pushed to extremes, and both rely on surprising juxtapositions of the ordinary (or in some instances, the profane) with the divine. Included among Donne’s secular poems are the Elegies, Songs and Sonnets, and Satyres, which subverted the conventions of Elizabethan poetry and laid the foundation for the neoclassical tradition in English verse, influencing writers such as Ben Jonson.