John Donne,being famous for his use of metaphysical metaphors,is one of the most successful poets of the 17th century English.His metaphysical poem“A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning”plays a significant role during t...John Donne,being famous for his use of metaphysical metaphors,is one of the most successful poets of the 17th century English.His metaphysical poem“A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning”plays a significant role during the Renaissance.In his poems,the compass is compared to lovers,which becomes the classic love metaphor.This essay aims to analyze the discrepancy between the death at the beginning and the love’s constancylater,and how John Donne illustrates two groups of contrast:spiritual love and physical love,temporal love and eternal love.展开更多
English near-synonyms pose a great challenge for English learners and they often feel confused about them.This paper draws on the research findings of the distinction of synonymous pair:forbid and prohibit based on CO...English near-synonyms pose a great challenge for English learners and they often feel confused about them.This paper draws on the research findings of the distinction of synonymous pair:forbid and prohibit based on COCA(Corpus of Contemporary American English)corpus online.The result shows that for collocation,forbid may be used to collocate with the infinitive(to do)oring participle,while prohibit often collocates with the preposition from.After register analysis,it is found that prohibit is more for⁃mal than forbid.As for semantic prosody,forbid is associated with neutral collocates,whereas prohibit appears to suggest a more negative semantic prosody.Detailed comparison and contrast about the two verbs can thus help English learners grasp the differenc⁃es of English synonyms accurately.展开更多
文摘John Donne,being famous for his use of metaphysical metaphors,is one of the most successful poets of the 17th century English.His metaphysical poem“A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning”plays a significant role during the Renaissance.In his poems,the compass is compared to lovers,which becomes the classic love metaphor.This essay aims to analyze the discrepancy between the death at the beginning and the love’s constancylater,and how John Donne illustrates two groups of contrast:spiritual love and physical love,temporal love and eternal love.
文摘English near-synonyms pose a great challenge for English learners and they often feel confused about them.This paper draws on the research findings of the distinction of synonymous pair:forbid and prohibit based on COCA(Corpus of Contemporary American English)corpus online.The result shows that for collocation,forbid may be used to collocate with the infinitive(to do)oring participle,while prohibit often collocates with the preposition from.After register analysis,it is found that prohibit is more for⁃mal than forbid.As for semantic prosody,forbid is associated with neutral collocates,whereas prohibit appears to suggest a more negative semantic prosody.Detailed comparison and contrast about the two verbs can thus help English learners grasp the differenc⁃es of English synonyms accurately.
