John Donne

John Donne crafts an anti-love poem of warning by expressing all the same immediate sentiments of love and longing while also subverting the original love poem genre through drunken expression. This is why no word better encapsulates the overall tone and intention of the poem than “drunk” in the first stanza: “The general balm th ' hydroptic earth hath drunk” (6). The word holds an immense amount of weight as it rests heavy on the tongue. This aforementioned heftiness correlates to the enormity…

hearted and then she became filled with kindness. Professor Bearing was a tough love teacher; she doesn’t really care about the students and their struggles. Her main fervor is for 17th Century poetry, especially the complicated Holy Sonnets of John Donne; well at least at the beginning of the play. In the latter half of the story Professor Bearing begins to drift away from her cold- heartedness as she gets flash backs on how she was before she found out she had cancer. This question is…

In the book Wit, by Margaret Edson, Vivian Bearing an English professor is diagnosed with cancer and decides to have an experimental treatment so doctors could learn about her disease. In this book Bearing has many goals she wishes to fulfil before her passing much like Faulkner’s book, As I Lay Dying. Much like Wit, Faulkner’s As I lay Dying follows an order of events that the ill mother, Addie and her loved ones needed to fulfil before death came for Addie. In both works an individual is…

The book, “No One Here Gets Out Alive,” by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, is a biography of the Rock n’ Roll star and poet; Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison is known as the singer in the band The Doors. He was also known as, by those close to him, an amazing poet who, more towards the end of his desire to continue music, eventually got his poetry published. Morrison was a unique individual with how he was and through his lyrics. Jim was seen as a sexy revolter of authority whose music involved…

Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem old relative begins with a commentary on death, that is somewhat flustered into a morality poem. The poems morality contemplation is not an austere good or evil, but a just-unjust analysis of social institutions. Within the first lines, we are shown a gentleman who is not ‘dead’ until he is arranged for death. Demonstrating that the funeral as a conventionality eclipses the reality of life and convolutes man into a God assessing when one passes. One’s body is in limbo as…

Donne and Herbert, both religious poets often radical, clever, and unconventional, and thus not surprising both have been considered leaders of a “metaphysical” school of poetry. Their similarities result from a time where everyone was a religious something. The protestant faith brings about an attitude of humility towards God in both poets. Both poets discuss their relations with God through the use of poetic form. Subsequently, writing roughly round the same time and theologically (both were…

Symbolism, Literary Style and Form in John Donne’s ‘The Flea’ ‘The Flea’ is a satirical love poem by medieval poet John Donne. In the poem, the speaker uses the flea as an example in attempts to persuade his lover into having intercourse with him. While the poem is humorous and satirical in nature, the poem is also one that is both erotic and uses some important literary devices and reflects upon the experience of love and romance in medieval Europe. The speaker in his attempts to persuade his…

all time – John Donne and William Shakespeare. They are worthy canonical figures that are still acknowledged and studied today, were influenced by cultural and historical features of the era in which they wrote and included aesthetics in their works which are exclusive to each. Both Donne’s and Shakespeare’s works are still acknowledged and studied today. To begin with, Donne was born in 1572 in London, England. He was not only a poet but also a sermonist. His works were confined…

John Donne and Lady Mary Wroth are two popular and controversial poets from the early seventeenth century. Donne often wrote sensuous and spiritual poetry, while Wroth had written Petrarchan (in nature) sonnets concerning love from a woman’s (practically unheard of for that time) perspective. In both Donne’s “A Valediction: forbidding Mourning” and Wroth’s “Sonnet 22” (in the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus) the issue of separation between lovers is explored by means of nature,…

In John Donne, there are three short poems, "Love 's Deity," The Dream," and "Self-Love" they are great poems that discuss the main themes such as love, imagery, nature, and dream of a man tried to be loved with a girl in life. It is an awesome poem; it brings many things to the reader and the audience has feeling peace, exciting, joy, and happy in life and society. Love is a series of strong emotions, the mentality, and different attitudes ranging from the personal feelings of the joy. It can…