Donne's love poetry expresses a wide variety of changing views and attitudes towards love. ... Often times when Donne is speaking about physical love he describes it in terms of a religious experience, as in To His Mistress Going to Bed, this description of physical love would seem to imply that it holds great importance to Donne. ... In To His Mistress Going to Bed, we see how highly Donne praises and enjoys the aspects of physical love. ... This is why Donne sees no need for an emotional goodbye. ... We can see the shifting attitudes Donne holds towards love through these poems. ...

• Word Count: 1081
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Donne, one of the infamous Metaphysical Poets, is known to some only by random quotes such as "for whom the bell tolls" or "no man is an island", but to others he is as important a writer as Shakespeare and thus has been valued as such in many forms. However John Donnes popularity is not universal and although he may be well known, he is not necessarily well liked. ... John Dryden was the first to use the term when he criticized Donne by saying "He affects the metaphysics in his amorous verses, where nature should only reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculati...

• Word Count: 737
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In John Donne's epigraph, "No Man is an Island": "No Man is an island; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of main." Donne expresses the idea that humans can only survive within a community instead of living alone by himself or herself. ... In the chapter "Living Together VS Going It Alone," Richard Nisbett finds the Asians tend to have similar opinions as John Donne. ... In John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, the behaviors of individualism and collectivism magnifies on George, who is the main character in the book. ... While John Donne still disseminated "No Man ...

• Word Count: 1341
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In John Donne's "Elegy 19: On His Mistress Going to Bed", Donne reveals to the audience the experience of undressing his mistress before they unite in sexual ecstasy. ... In doing so, Donne recreates the woman to her face. ... In Donne's "Elegy 19: On His Mistress Going to Bed", the speaker says, "O my America! ... However, like Donne, Ovid uses violence in a literal sense, as well. ... This discursive description of eroticism by Donne furthers his objection of women in "E...

• Word Count: 2685
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the implementation of lyrical libido Sappho, Asclepiades, the writer of Song of Songs, and Philodemus the Epicurean, along with contemporary and modern writers, Donne, Herrick, Yeats, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Tony Hoagland, and Sharon Olds, create a unifying link between disparate worlds and immortalize an otherwise ephemeral aspect of life. ...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster and John Donne, and of the French symbolist Jules Laforgue, along with the influence of his new tutor-guide Bergson, helped the young poet to find his own style - unique, though close to that of the imagists. ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate