【正文】 treatise to introduce the inductive method, that is, inductive reasoning. This method of inductive reasoning through analysis and experiment showed the correct direction of modern science in Bacon’s day. Metaphysical PoetsJohn DonneI. Donne the man1. He was brought up as a Catholic(天主教徒)；2. Being a Catholic, he could not obtain the degree from Cambridge Universityand Oxford University in which he majored in law。 from many set backs, he gave up his faith and became an Anglican, which he took it as a shame. an Anglican and eloquent preacher, he was continuously promoted and became the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral.II. Donne the poet poems can be divided into early love poetry and later divine poems。 following points can be helpful for the understanding of his poems: (1) his poems are characterized by mysticism in content and strangeness in form。 (2)his poems often contains: plicated reasoning, obscure conceits(奇思妙想，奇喻), farfetched parison and strange imageries. (3) “The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together” (by Samuel Johnson)SongGo, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me, where all past years are, or who cleft the Devil’s foot,Teach me to hear Mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What windServes to advance an honest mind.If thou beest borne to strange sight, Things invisible to see,Ride ten thousand days and nights,Till age snow white hairs on thee,Thou, when thou return’st, wilt tell meAll strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair. If thou findst one, let me know,Such a Pilgrimage were sweet。Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet,Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter,Yet she Will be False, ere I e, to two, or three.Questions for this “song”1. what is the tone of this poem? And what is the speaker’s attitude towards women? is the language style of this poem?3.. what is the theme of this poem?4. In what way does this poem differentiate from the poem we discussed before?Literature of the Revolution and Restoration periodJohn Milton (16081674)I. Life 1. born in a Puritan family in which old Milton tutored his son in Italian, French, music and other subjects.2. Studied in Cambridge, Milton acquired a mastery of Latin. bee Latin Secretary of the Government for his staunch support of the revolution.II. Career1. born in a period of tremendous social upheavals, Milton, the most learned poet in English literature, defended the Commonwealth with his pamphlets.2. After restoration, he still calls for the fight and revolution with his masterpiece “Paradise Lost”, an epic of 12 books, written in blank verse.Masterpiece: Paradise Lost ? Story (retell)? Notes (line105124):? 1. what though: what if, what’s the matter? is not lost: not all is lost? : plan? : great anger? : glory,favour? late: recently? : authority? : humiliation? : worse than? 10. fail：perish? 11. in arms：in force? 12. Give in ,surrenderThe image of Satan（to analyze）Term:Blank verse: it’s the unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Blank verse is a very flexible English verse form which can attain rhetorical grandeur while echoing the natural rhythms of speech and allowing smooth enjambment. First used by Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, it soon bee both standard meter for dramatic poetry and a widely used form for narrative and meditative poems, and then bee an important medium for poetic drama.Early poems, pamphlets, and sonnetsSamson Agonists (To simply narrate)Milton’s achievements (to briefly summarize and interprete)