John Donne

Nurses have the privilege of being with a person during what could be one of the most significant and meaningful moments of their lives. In the film Wit, Vivian Bearing learned a great deal about herself and the human experience while she was in her most vulnerable state, battling stage four ovarian cancer. She was urged into accepting a rigorous and debilitating chemotherapy trial by her physician, Harvey Kelekian. The insensitivity and coldness she received from Kelekian and his team of…

To us, you are and always will be but a scholarly specimen in a research jar. This may sound harsh, but the puzzle must be solved, and only with your participation, will the puzzle pieces merge as one. So goes the life of the patient with a most unfortunate diagnosis of cancer that marks precious life with a timeline. The scholarly specimen in the play, Wit, is Dr. Vivian Bearing. The story walks us through stages of her life, starting with the day she received a diagnosis of Stage 4 ovarian…

matter what you are not alone. You will see how your family will affect you and what they bring to each day. You will see how your friends affect your day, and lastly you will see how outsider, or strangers will affect your day. In “Meditation 17” by John Donne, you can clearly see how his idea that “No man is and island” still stands strong today, through your family, friends and even strangers.…

This poem demonstrates how death conflicts with its interpretation of being all powerful when Donne views death as a topic or event that should be mocked. In the first quatrain death is put down, to be viewed as lacking power in the grande scheme of life. “Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so”, this is Donne’s beginning of stop deaths pride. Death could possibly be seen at the end of the second line as it ends in a semicolon which symbols something stopped but then continues and goes on.…

Island lives (An analysis of the phrase, “No man is an island” from Meditation 17 by John Donne.) Strength as a whole nation is something that Americans have that they are able to be proud of. This is something that was stronger many years ago too though. As society has grown, and technology has become more advanced, society has started to grow apart in their relationships with one another. In Meditation 17 by John Donne, it is said that “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a…

Forbidding Mourning” John Donne argues that having a physically intimate relationship means that the love between two people is shallow, however I disagree and feel that a couple can be affectionate while also maintaining a strong, spiritual connection. It is healthy to have a physical connection in order to have a successful relationship. There are many reasons to support this idea. For example, the foundation and backbone…

canons’ mean? Literary canons are a collection of literary works and authors approved by academic scholars, having high authority status and regarded as valuable distinctive works of great attention and respect. Two incredible canonical figures are John Donne and Shakespeare that each of them has his great valuable literary works, and each of them had a different story…

The poem, "Holy Sonnet XIV" was written by John Donne and published in the year of 1633, two years after his death. Donne was born and raised as a Catholic, later becoming an Anglican cleric. The Christian faith is clearly reflected in his writings, and his "Holy Sonnet XIV", is a sinner's prayer to God. Through the utilization of diction use and literary devices such as allusion and imagery, Donne draws the audience into intimately experiencing the speaker's desperation, despair, and devotion…

Holy Sonnet 10: “Death be not proud,” poem is by John Donne published in 1609 most likely Petrarchan sonnet with using the iambic pentameter. Using the iambic meter makes the rhythm of the poem sound flow. Just looking and reading throughout the poem, a reader can assume that John Donne must have been a good talker. A reader can also assume that he must have been an aggressive argument maker by looking at a human title that he has. Donne was a preacher and he had many sermons throughout his life…

The poem “Death, Be Not Proud”, by John Donne, is a Petrarchan sonnet, which is divided to an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the last six lines). In the octave we are exposed to the speaker who seems to be a simple man who does not like Death (maybe from a personal experience, but we cannot know for sure), and probably religious. We can assume he is religious by the belief of “soul’s delivery” (8) and eternal life after death, as stated in line 13. The speaker addresses Death, and…