<P> Brooks ends his essay with a reading of John Donne 's poem The Canonization , which uses a paradox as its underlying metaphor . Using a charged religious term to describe the speaker 's physical love as saintly , Donne effectively argues that in rejecting the material world and withdrawing to a world of each other , the two lovers are appropriate candidates for canonization . This seems to parody both love and religion , but in fact it combines them , pairing unlikely circumstances and demonstrating their resulting complex meaning . Brooks points also to secondary paradoxes in the poem : the simultaneous duality and singleness of love , and the double and contradictory meanings of `` die '' in Metaphysical poetry ( used here as both sexual union and literal death ) . He contends that these several meanings are impossible to convey at the right depth and emotion in any language but that of paradox . A similar paradox is used in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet , when Juliet says , `` For saints have hands that pilgrims ' hands do touch and palm to palm is holy palmer 's kiss . '' </P>
<P> Brooks ends his essay with a reading of John Donne 's poem The Canonization , which uses a paradox as its underlying metaphor . Using a charged religious term to describe the speaker 's physical love as saintly , Donne effectively argues that in rejecting the material world and withdrawing to a world of each other , the two lovers are appropriate candidates for canonization . This seems to parody both love and religion , but in fact it combines them , pairing unlikely circumstances and demonstrating their resulting complex meaning . Brooks points also to secondary paradoxes in the poem : the simultaneous duality and singleness of love , and the double and contradictory meanings of `` die '' in Metaphysical poetry ( used here as both sexual union and literal death ) . He contends that these several meanings are impossible to convey at the right depth and emotion in any language but that of paradox . A similar paradox is used in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet , when Juliet says , `` For saints have hands that pilgrims ' hands do touch and palm to palm is holy palmer 's kiss . '' </P>
which poem of john donne is cited by cleanth brooks as a sufficiently extreme instanceof paradox
which poem of john donne is cited by cleanth brooks as a sufficiently extreme instanceof paradox
The Canonization
The Canonization