It is an accessible idea that Donne uses death to compare against a broken heart. ... "And now, as broken glass show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more" (29-32), the with that the speaker concludes the poem. Like broken glass a broken heart shows a bunch of images, there is something left of it. ... "The Broken Heart" allows love to become superior and the heart to become the victim. ... The poem expresses how a broken heart impacts one and the purpose of it, however has an ending with a tragic twist in w...

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Anyone who has experienced a break in a relationship that results with a broken heart can empathize with John Donne's poem "The Broken Heart" after some thought. ... Another visual reference to love in "The Broken Heart" is the mentioning of glass. ... Feelings of humans are fragile and prone to be hurt, and so the title "The Broken Heart" may be derived from this simile of the broken glass. ... The descriptions in "The Broken Heart" based upon glass help add to the bad nature of love as John Donne sees it. ... In John Donne's poem "The Broken Heart" written on the downfalls ...

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• Grade Level: High School