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Yu, Jie-Ae. “John Donne’s Metempsychosis: Unraveling the Manifold Deployments of Incorporeal Transmigration.” Studies in English Language & Literature 43.2 (2017): 181-197. The main purpose of this article is to examine how John Donne’s Metempsychosis deploys the multiple implications of the transmigration of the soul. The author’s treatment of the incorporeal movement is featured by its satirical observations on the tainted facets of both the internal and external worlds of human beings. In Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Donne's last work before his death in 1631, he singles out his evident search for the invisible progress of the soul after one's evaporation. Donne's 1601 poem Metempsychosis, however, initiates his critical approach to the corrupted aspects of man and society, which he expands in An Anatomy of the World (1611) and The Second Anniversary (1612). This paper investigates how the writer anticipates his social and spiritual remedies, along with his five satires written before Metempsychosis. (Changwon National University)