To understand John Donnes ideas on love and salvation the responder must understand the context in which Donne writes. As a 16th century poet Donne lived in a time where everyone believed in god. ... Donne lived in a time of discovery and exploration. ... One theme Donne repeatedly explored was that of love. ... In the context of John Donne's time the spheres around the earth were the largest structures imaginable. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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

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. A somewhat bitter poem, Donne fills the verses with similes and metaphors that compare love with the uncaring yet destructive items he chooses. ... In the usage of words like "decay," "devour," "swallow," and "shiver," John Donne effectively depicts love as the malicious thing that it can be. ... The descriptions in "The Broken Heart" based upon glass help add to the bad nature of love as John Donne sees it. ... In Joh...

• Word Count: 699
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

John Donne's poem, "The Broken Heart" is composed of a multitude amount of themes, worthy diction, poetic devices, and figurative language that fall into place in order to successfully emphasize on the thoughts of heartache from the speaker. ... Donne adds an analogy and establishes that plague and powder is like love working violently and quickly. It is an accessible idea that Donne uses death to compare against a broken heart. ... A lover can learn but never love again after a broken heart, Donne chooses his diction carefully to allow the speaker to wrap the poem with the idea of how ...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

We want to live righteously so that we can, "As men pass mildly away" (Donne, 398.1). ... As said by poet John Donne "death can come at any time." ... After all, he is a "slave to fate, chance, kings and despite men" (Donne, 400.11). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

John Donne, born 1572, died 1631, wrote poems for an elite society of friends, and circulated them only in manuscript form. ... Donne's poems primarily dealt with love. ... The first stanza of Donne's poem conveys the speaker's envy toward the flea. ... According to Hans Robert Jauss's theory of horizons of expectation, Donne's poem contains a different meaning today than it did in it's own time period. ...

• Word Count: 1016
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• Grade Level: High School

Although I agree with Bacon's statements in "Of Marriage and Single Life", that married life requires and abundance of time and responsibility, it's important to extend his ideas since love can make one's life exponentially important, as stated by John Donne in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", by Robert Herrick in "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.... In a case like the man in Donne's piece "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", the man is saying goodbye to his wife even though she desperately needs him at that time. ... " (Do...

• Word Count: 980
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School