the bait
The Bait
Donne only uses four sentences for each little section of the poem, each of the little sections starts out talking about something different. For example the first little section talks about how the woman should live with him and be his love and what pleasure he will receive when he catches the woman. Donne illustrates that by using the metaphor that he is the fish and she is the bait he is trying to catch. The second section Donne says “warmed by thine eyes more than the sun” saying the beauty of the woman is that of the sun. The third section talks about “Channels” and that the men swim threw the channels and will take any path to win the affection of the woman; the fish also gets greater pleasure from winning the woman’s love as opposed to receiving it, which might relate in some sense, to the man just wanting the bait but does not want to be caught. The fourth section Donne says “I need not their light, having thee” meaning women only bear necessity when it comes to their existence and being able to use them but not have a relationship with them that could lead to marriage. The fifth section Donne talks about that maybe women are not as wonderful as he first assumed in the beginning, and that he feels that he cannot move and is trapped when women are around him. An example of that is “with strangling snare or window net”. The sixth section says “the bedded fish in banks outwrest” saying the men are so tired from their unsuccessful pursuits and that they were charmed by the woman but were not aware of being maneuvered. In the final section Donne talks about that the “art thine own bait” meaning the woman has been drawn into her own trap. And as a result the wiser the men are they would have steered clear of the woman’s allurements. The way the rhyming is used in the poem it almost makes it looks like an oxymoron throughout the poem. An example would be in the
Donne only uses four sentences for each little section of the poem, each of the little sections starts out talking about something different. For example the first little section talks about how the woman should live with him and be his love and what pleasure he will receive when he catches the woman. Donne illustrates that by using the metaphor that he is the fish and she is the bait he is trying to catch. The second section Donne says “warmed by thine eyes more than the sun” saying the beauty of the woman is that of the sun. The third section talks about “Channels” and that the men swim threw the channels and will take any path to win the affection of the woman; the fish also gets greater pleasure from winning the woman’s love as opposed to receiving it, which might relate in some sense, to the man just wanting the bait but does not want to be caught. The fourth section Donne says “I need not their light, having thee” meaning women only bear necessity when it comes to their existence and being able to use them but not have a relationship with them that could lead to marriage. The fifth section Donne talks about that maybe women are not as wonderful as he first assumed in the beginning, and that he feels that he cannot move and is trapped when women are around him. An example of that is “with strangling snare or window net”. The sixth section says “the bedded fish in banks outwrest” saying the men are so tired from their unsuccessful pursuits and that they were charmed by the woman but were not aware of being maneuvered. In the final section Donne talks about that the “art thine own bait” meaning the woman has been drawn into her own trap. And as a result the wiser the men are they would have steered clear of the woman’s allurements. The way the rhyming is used in the poem it almost makes it looks like an oxymoron throughout the poem. An example would be in the