It is fair to say that John Donne is acknowledged for his explorations beyond physical aspects in life during the period of the Renaissance. ... A tendency that can be followed in Donne's work is his exploration of "metaphysical" emotions conveyed by the persona. ... Techniques are just one of the elements that make up Donne's unique style in Renaissance poetry. ... This idea would be dependant on Donne's efficient use of techniques. ... Donne pleads to be freed despite his established masochist nature. ...

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Parasites and Pick-Up Lines; Sophistry in John Donnes' "The Flea- Rejoice! ... John Donnes' "The Flea- demonstrates that former presidents and politicians are not the only men who manipulate language to suit their own ends. Indeed, the use of sophistry as a tool of seduction is an ancient art, and Donne, through his speaker in this piece, uses it more than any other poet in this section. ... As the next stanza unfolds, Donnes' speaker climbs to new heights of casuistic creativity. ...

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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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John Donne was born in 1572 to a London merchant and his wife. The characteristic elements of John Donne's poetry are plentiful. ... John Donne has written many poems with a love theme, often with an idealized view of sexual love. ... John Donne is also known for his religious poetry, which he mainly wrote between 1618 and 1631. ... John Donne sadly died in 1631. ...

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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...

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Title of Work: Death, be not proud Author: John Donne John Donne's Death, be not proud is a particularly interesting poem that expresses the act of dying as something natural and pleasant abandoning the reputation it has held for being frightening or powerful. ... The idea that Death can die is startling and hard to imagine, but it makes sense in light of Donne's reasoning. ... Donne successfully used various literary conventions to portray a specific image of Death in this poem. ... I had never before considered the points made by Donne until reading this poem. ... ...

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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. 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...

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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 ...

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When reading the poem "The Bait- by John Donne, one may initially interpret the poem to be one about fishing. ... Here, Donne gives his first clue that this is actually a love poem. "And there th' enamored fish will stay, Begging themselves they may betray (Donne). ... In the second stanza, "by thy eyes- is an example of consonance (Donne). ... In conclusion "The Bait- by John Donne is one in which the entirety of the poem is about a man and his quest to catch a woman that he adores. ...

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In "The Sunne Rising," the poet John Donne dramatizes the conflict between the sun and the speaker, an egotistical young man in bed with his lover. ... Donne uses the same ABBACDCDEE rhyme scheme and the same prosody in all three stanzas. This consistent structure allows Donne to use corresponding lines in all three stanzas for the same purpose. ...

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So personification is used in the poems "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "Death, be not proud" by John Donne, to help express a peaceful and sarcastic tone that is used. ... Emily Dickinson was a writer in the eighteenth century and John Donne was a writer in sixteenth century and John Donne was a writer in sixteenth century. Back to two centuries prior to Emily Dickinson in "Because I could not stop for Death" and John Donne in "Death, be not proud" additionally utilizes an alternate sort of personification. ... The two poets in their work look in, out and all arou...

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Unconditional Love Although the subject matter of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning- could be applied to any couple pending separation, John Donne wrote his poem for his wife on the eve of his departure for France in 1611. ... Donne's contemporaries believed that the heavens were perfect (reflecting the perfection of God). ... Donne continues to refer to the Ptolemaic universe in the fourth and fifth stanzas. ... In the sixth stanza, Donne again compares love to gold. ... Here Donne is referring to the mathematical instrument used in geometry. ...

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Violent imagery in a holy sonnet: Batter my heart, three-personed God In John Donne's "Batter my heart, three-personed God ," the speaker is in despair about his ability to be chaste. ... The marriage idea is a metaphor and another conceit that Donne uses in the poem. ...

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On the other hand, John Donne's, "Death be not Proud, though some have called thee", addresses the facts that "Death" is not the end of the life but in many ways a new beginning. ... Donne has used iambic pentameter as medium represent his ideas. ... Donne provokes us to confront death and defeat it rather than just being a victim of death, and thus it creates a mood. ... His sonnet also has a similarity to Donne's poem in the fact that it uses the same iambic pentameter. ... In contrast, John Donne's entire sonnet directly addresses death. ...

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Two poets in particular, Andrew Marvell and John Donne, wrote carpe diem poetry full of vivid imagery and metaphysical conceits. ... This message can be clearly seen in the poems "To his Coy Mistress" by Marvell and Donne's "Flea." ... To his Coy Mistress" is similar in many ways to Donne's "Flea." ... Donne uses the metaphysical conceit of a flea to symbolize the love shared between them. ... Donne also uses iambic tetrameter in the AA, BB, CC, etc., form. ...

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John Donne's "The Sun Rising" is certainly not a typical love poem. The poet uses imagery, structure and omission to indicate the egocentricity of the lovers. Through the use of these devices, the poet persona is attempting to convince the reader that the private world of lovers is superior to th...

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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. ...

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"A Hymn to God the Father" by John Donne is an insightful poem that addresses the speaker's unease caused by the sins he has committed throughout his life and the inner battle to relieve his fear of death. The speaker is supposedly John Donne because he was on the verge of death when writing this poem and was deeply religious during the latter part of his life. ... The poem "A Hymn to God the Father," although assumed to be spoken by John Donne, could have been inspired by his thoughts but ultimately written for all of humanity. ... Donne writes with a very regular style, the first four l...

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This objective seems to be exactly what John Donne and Andrew Marvell are both seeking to accomplish in their poems; "The Flea" and "To His Coy Mistress". ... Donne sites, "And cloister"d in these living walls of jet And sacrilege, three sins in killing three" (Donne, line 15, 18), both lines conveying the divine imagery. ... Just like in Donne's account, Marvell expresses his notion utilizing some religious imagery. ... Although, just like it was for Donne's account, we cannot conclude that Marvell is religious in his nature. ... In short, John Donne and Andrew Marvell are ver...

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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. ...

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