In Jonson’s The Alchemist

The format is question and response.

Question 1

In Jonson’s The Alchemist

1a. Examine the exposition of Alchemical theory in The Alchemist and the critique therein of its terminology and assumptions about nature.

1b. Examine the use of Alchemy as metaphor and plot device.

Question 2       

John Donne is noteworthy for being open to metaphors drawn from diverse sources and for being willing to shift metaphors within a poem.

2 Examine the metaphoric strategies of Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.”

Poem available at The Poetry Foundation site.