Song John Donne Analysis

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Men and women have been at odds since the beginning of time; there has been much speculation as to who can love who more. The problem with the debate is that the controversy is over the amount of love rather than the type of love. With this stated, it can be assumed that the problem is no longer concerning the amount of love that a single person can have when compared to another, but rather the different style of love that is specific to the two sexes. In turn, the difference in love is basically a battle between the sexes for who has the better type of love. As John Donne writes in Sonnet 18, "let mine amorous soul court thy mild dove" (Donne line 12). Here Donne is attempting to question the strange phenomenon that occurs in the human ecosystem: Men courting women. This small excerpt is one of the many that come from the numerous poems Donne has written. Overall, Donne writes some the most insightful words that correlate with love. In analyzing John Donne 's poem Song, …show more content…
Hayden Griffin III, Chris L. Gibson, David N. Khey, Miller writes that he thinks that love is “like taking acid and mushrooms and ecstasy and slamming a 40 and huffing a nitrous balloon all at the same time” (Miller Pg.396). In the end, even in my few words on the subject of love is a waste of time because the hours upon days upon years of work that I had to do to understand what I finally do, cannot be put into any form of language. The subject is not to complicated nor is it overly redundant; the fact of the matter is that love is the gateway to something that we as a human race have yet to fully comprehend. The shear notion of what love is, is enough to drive a personal to insanity, love is the Alpha and the Omega; it knows no race or creed or gender. Love is absolute and yet is it forever? I believe that there is only one person that truly knows what love is and how absolute it truly is. That person is the creator himself:

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