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

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. ...

• Word Count: 1135
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 991
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• 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
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School