former student‚ “give[s] [Vivian] a pelvic exam” she feels outright “degraded‚” an experience common for students in her classroom (Edson 32). While Vivian was an excellent teacher‚ exceptionally passionate about her work‚ she never thought of herself as lower‚ or even on the same level‚ as her students. Her body wrought with weakness and “crawling with cancer” (Edson 68)‚ she realizes that she is human‚ as are her
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning vs. To the Virgins‚ to Make Much of Time A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne and To the Virgins‚ to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick share similar writing forms and speakers‚ however‚ their symbolism and themes remain different. Herrick’s poem discusses the shortness of the human lifespan‚ optimistically emphasizing the idea of carpe diem‚ “seize the day”. On the other hand‚ Donne’s poem deals with a more serious subject‚ the separation of the
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to‚ a conservative‚ paternalistic‚ and religious world‚ the metaphysical poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell present a new mode of thinking; one not governed by the hope of heaven‚ but by faith in the flesh. The poetry highlights and reinforces the spontaneity of lust while underscoring the fact of human mortality. Challenge conventions and conservative ideology are common preoccupations of artists and just as Donne champions the libertine ideal in "To His Mistress Going to Bed"‚ so Marvell ’s "To
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Broken Heart‚ by John Donne‚ sets a despairing mood about heartbreak and clearly states his adverse opinion about falling in love. It is obvious that the author has been a victim of terrible remorse and through this writing‚ expresses his feelings about how love is a negative thing. Using varied imagery‚ Donne portrays this discouraging tone through diction‚ personification‚ and metaphors. A melancholy tone is set just through the name of the poem‚ “Broken Heart”. Donne begins the poem through
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John Donne utilizes an unconventional genre in his poem‚ demeaning and objectifying the female sex. A common motif in poems of the Renaissance‚ Donne uses a flea as a metaphorical comparison to sexual intercourse and the eternal bind between man and woman. Illustrated throughout the poem‚ Donne continues to compare the act of love to the actions of a flea‚ as it attaches itself to its host‚ sucks the blood‚ and later dies. "Mark but this flea‚ and mark in this‚" (line 1)‚ immediately Donne introduces
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The Broken Heart‚ by John Donne‚ is a poem that illustrates imagery of how love destroys the heart. In the first stanza‚ it states “He is stark mad‚ whoever says‚ (1) that he hath been in love an hour.” (2) The author is giving an exploration that a man is out his mind or insane if he feels that love last only an hour. For instance‚ “decays” (3) and “devour” (4)‚ love does not decay‚ or pass away gradually‚ but love do devour a person. It can consume them and take over all aspects of the mind
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The poem "The Canonization" written by John Donne is about love. Throughout this poem Donne reveals both concepts of physical love and spiritual love. The words that Donne has chosen in this poem are an example of a poetic technique that not only allows the reader to understand the speaker‚ but also be able to see images based on his word choice about the different aspects of love. In the first stanza the opening line is "For God’s sake‚ hold your tongue‚ and let me love!" This line shows the importance
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Darkness in literature is quite beautiful when written in poetry‚ like how John Donne and Edgar Allan Poe speak of death‚ the sense of darkness it gives. By using this method of writing‚ it makes the poems captivating‚ and makes the readers read in between the lines to find different meanings in the poem. It makes the readers feel some sort of connection to the poetry. It makes one question the true value death has in one’s life. If death should be taken as something that is not as big of a deal
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entire population is affected. In 1623‚ Donne was extremely ill with malarial fever‚ and he wrote the meditation during recovery. He observed that every death diminishes the fabric of humanity. He wrote about the tolling of a church bell‚ representing a funeral‚ and connected it to his present illness. Most of John Donne’s writing is similar to the religious sonnets of Anne Vaughan Lock‚ because of the dark‚ gloomy and despairing tones (Evans par. 2) Donne frequently wrote and preached on themes
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used pejoratively: in 1630 the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden objected to those of his contemporaries who attempted to “abstract poetry to metaphysical ideas and scholastic quiddities.” At the end of the century‚ John Dryden censured Donne for affecting “the
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