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Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part I (2025)

Spirituality and humanism in the selected works of John Donne

Author(s):

Abdul Vaahid and Yameen Khan

Abstract:

John Donne, a important contribute to English abstruse poetry, intricately weaves immateriality and values of a people in welcome everything, reflecting the intellectual and educational currents of the Renaissance. This paper investigate by what method Donne’s expressive and prose, containing Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets, and picked lectures, materialize a synthesis of religious loyalty and manlike asking. By trying poems to a degree “The Flea,” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “Holy Sonnet 14,” and excerpts from welcome Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, this study disputes that Donne reconciles the divine accompanying the human, blending religious wisdom accompanying a festival of individual experience, through close textual study, by means of factual and academic perspectives. The paper focal points Donne’s singular gift to Renaissance drama, stressing his talent to guide along route, often over water the strains betwixt sacred and materialistic territories.

The research is a reasoning of whole of poet John Donne the one create it attainable to disclose the aspects of interplay immateriality and ideas as the key to the understanding of the human spirit. This study explores the crossroads of immateriality and ideas in the picked works of John Donne, a main contribute to spiritual expressive whose writings indicate the intellectual and conscientious complicatedness of the early seventeenth of one hundred years. Donne’s poetry and written frequently linger otherworldly themes—to a degree sin, salvation, death, and divine love—while together having humanist standard, particularly the worth of individual happening, self-analysis, and realistic inquiry. In everything in the way that Holy Sonnets and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Donne confronts experiential concerns through the glass of Christian theology, still he does so by stressing individual struggle, exciting wisdom, and philosophical interpretation (Donne 113). This combining of protected and worldly thought portrays Donne’s date accompanying the person's experiences as both a religious and intellectual journey.

The research is a reasoning of whole of poet John Donne the one create it attainable to disclose the aspects of interplay immateriality and ideas as the key to the understanding of the human spirit. This study explores the crossroads of immateriality and ideas in the picked works of John Donne, a main contribute to spiritual expressive whose writings indicate the intellectual and conscientious complicatedness of the early seventeenth of one hundred years. Donne’s poetry and written frequently linger otherworldly themes—to a degree sin, salvation, death, and divine love—while together having humanist standard, particularly the worth of individual happening, self-analysis, and realistic inquiry. In everything in the way that Holy Sonnets and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Donne confronts experiential concerns through the glass of Christian theology, still he does so by stressing individual struggle, exciting wisdom, and philosophical interpretation (Donne 113). This combining of protected and worldly thought portrays Donne’s date accompanying the person's experiences as both a religious and intellectual journey.

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International Journal of Research in English
How to cite this article:
Abdul Vaahid and Yameen Khan. Spirituality and humanism in the selected works of John Donne. Int. J. Res. Engl. 2025;7(1):553-556. DOI: 10.33545/26648717.2025.v7.i1i.391
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