Essays on Donne

Most of the poem is a speaker's account of a woman who is undressing. The speaker calls and entices the mistress to come into bed. Further, the speaker believes that he will only be in content if he engages in coitus with the mistress. The next lines describe the act of gradually undressing the woman piece by piece. He compares her pieces of attire to different things such as her girdle, which he compares to elements in the heavens. He tells of the woman's beauty and compares his exploration of the woman's body as that of the exploration of ...

If death is really true, based upon the animistic quality of our five physical senses, then how do we know that we are truly alive and breathing and not in a dream? It has been proposed that people who are aware of the existence of their surroundings mostly rely on their five senses, which may cause illusions. The ethereal yet grounded theory of existentialism provides the landscape for a more positively-identified pathway which reaches across the separation that exists among humans.            When thinking about the quote ‘existence precedes essence’, the concept lends room for credibility that Morrie was right ...

George Herbert (1593-1633) adopted the Metaphysical style of poetry from Donne but in a simpler manner. His famous poem “Death” is an example of the poetry that uses rhetorical forms of writing like a paradox, hyperbole, and conceits. The poem constitutes two parts that have a contradicting view of death. The First part presents death as a fearsome being through the use of hideous expressions and imagery. The second part presents death as a friend and a passage to a better life. The last three stanzas give hope to Christians through the works of Jesus Christ. Through Christ’s ...

This poem by John Donne is centered on a spiritual love that transcends the physical. As a metaphysical poem, this work uses several exaggerated comparisons in literature, a type of analogy that takes something physical and compares it to something spiritual or beyond physical. (Wikipedia contributors)

Starting from the title which means, when we part we must not mourn. This poem is for his beloved wife to comfort her while he was going on a business trip. He asks her not to mourn his departure and not to cry, by saying, “So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests ...

“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” was written by John Donne, who was born in 1572 in a Roman Catholic family, in London. He studied both law and theology and was known as the founder of Metaphysical Poetry, which includes details and comparisons beyond the physical realm. Abstract comparisons are made to a physical or tangible object. Donne’s imagery therefore is eclectic and startling, and we see marks of the metaphysical conceit throughout the poem when the two souls (of his beloved’s and his) are compared to the two feet of a compass, united in the center. The poem was written roughly ...