John Donne Poetry Analysis

“Mistress” means a woman who’s had an affair. The title itself conveys a sense of powerfulness because mistress is the feminine word for the master. Therefore, “To his coy mistress” instantly tells the reader that the poem is based on the true love of the speaker towards his beloved, developing the nuances of the theme as the poem progresses. It explores a sense of vastness through a close-knit logical coherence in the poem.

Lastly, in the poem “Annabel Lee” written by Edgar Allan Poe, the passion that the speaker expresses towards his wife never ends even in rough times such as death. Throughout these three poems, it is evident that the power of love can influence people in many positive and negative ways, but even in the toughest of times, the affection towards each other remains. In the poem, Sonnet 18 written by William Shakespeare, the speaker expresses his deep compassion for the love of his life by using romantic phrases to prove the devotion they both share towards one another. By using the metaphor, “Shall [he] compare thee to a summer’s day?” the speaker is able to

Groundling, where fore art thou groundling. In the epitaph, “My Love for You Is So Embarrassingly” by Todd Boss, the speaker is stuck in an internal ponder between his head and his heart. The title alone emphasizes how grand his love is for the auditor. Then, as the poem progresses he makes a point to show how devotion is taken for granted. This poem differs from your traditional love poem because the speaker challenges his feelings.

Another reoccurring theme in the poem is love. The reader can see from the very beginning that this poem is about someone the speaker loved very much. It’s clear that all the man wants is his dear Lenora back, although that is impossible. Knowing this, the reader can infer that Poe struggled with love in his own life, so much so that he took to writing about it. Although he never comes out directly and says that this is a poem about love, the reader can recognize the deeper meaning of his writings.

Whether it is unrequited love, love that is lost, or love that could have possibly never been there in the first place. When comparing and contrasting these sonnets and contemporary songs, the reader will get to see love that is hardened by the hardships of infidelities and lies. In these songs and poems, love is a catastrophe that is facing much adversity. In sonnet 147, Shakespeare ended up being so appalled by his love life, that he said her soul was clouded by darkness. In Hold Up, Beyoncé somehow found a way to continue to love her husband, even with all of the grief he has put her through.

He explains that no matter what happens his love for his lover will never fade an he will always be by her side. This makes the reader feel his loving mood toward her. Making his poem have a tone of appreciation and loving mood. Unlike in the poem What my lips have kissed, and where, and why by Edna St. Vincent Millay has a depressing tone. By telling us how it has not been easy to find love and when she has found it has not lasted.

Romanticism in ¨From Song of Myself¨ From song of myself, is a very open minded poem as the author Walt Whitman speaks so much in this poem about himself. Throughout the poem there is a variety of topics going on through every other line in where Walt Whitman declares that he is going to celebrate himself in his poem by all the personal opinions he provides in it. In this poem, Whitman explains how much he loves the world, especially nature and how everything fits together just as it should.

It’s sentimental and honest which is what one’s significant other deserves. Daniel Caesar and H.E.R. wrote a song titled “Best Part.” King Solomon on the other hand, wrote a poem called “Song of Songs.” Both works are indeed affectionate gestures of admiration; yet, the song is poetically superior which can be depicted with the similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and setting being portrayed.

The sacred consciousness of the “huge trusted power” which “moves in the muscle of the world/ In continual creation” (“A Chorus”) lights up the experiences of many of the poems in Moments of Grace and Celebrations and Elegies. Jennings writes in “Rescued,”: “Call that power God,/ As I do,” referring to the “primal power” that lie beneath the poets experience of creative power and her poignant recognition of the vagaries of love , two themes brought together in Moments of Grace.

In comparing the two poems, a contrast is made between a life of complete and total romantic fulfillment and a life spent searching for love in vain. Heaney’s “Scaffolding” does so through the extended metaphor of a building’s scaffolding which is then connected directly to his own life experiences and relationship. In forging this connection, he employs a structured rhyme scheme that reinforces the rigid and unwavering confidence of the conclusions he has made about love. The uniform, block-like structure of the aabbccddee rhyme scheme conforms to the poem’s general theme of solidity and permanence. Similarly, Millay follows a rhyme scheme throughout her poem.

The sonnet has that rhythm that makes the poem easier to read and provides a natural flow that accompanies the subject. I embraced the emphasis of emotions and thoughts that are associated with sonnets. For example, Petrarch focused on love, and he used the sonnets to show others the feelings he had inside. Petrarch used sonnets to share his true feelings, and I also used my sonnet to express my feelings. Love and Death are different topics, but both need to be expressed at some point in time.

When they believed in something, they believed in it hard. For instance, in the poem, “To my dear and loving husband” by Anne Bradstreet she states, “ My love is such that rivers cannot quench”. This resembles passion, because she loves him so much, and it is ever lasting. It basically just shows her strong feelings for the other person. Another example would be from “ Sinners in the hands on an angry God” by John Edwards.

An exploration of the intertextual connections between John Donne’s 17th Century metaphysical poetry and Margaret Edson’s metatextual drama, W;t (1995) accentuates their distinctive contexts. Influenced by the social, political and religious upheavals of the 17th Century, Donne’s poetry is a passionate celebration of the transcendental nature of spirituality, through which personal redemption can be achieved in the confrontation with one’s mortality. In her application of Donne’s contextual ideals, Edson subverts the postmodernist dynamic by asserting the impossibility for academic elitism in attaining personal salvation, as represented by the play’s titular semicolon alluding to the witty style of metaphysical poetry and Donne’s contextual preoccupation with the afterlife. Transcending

The poem “The Vacuum” by Howard Nemerov tells the life of an old man after the horrific loss of his wife. His wife did everything he could ever imagine for him. She was his heart and soul and didn’t know what to do without her. The man saw her as his hero. Throughout the poem the man struggles to keep his emotions in as he thinks his wife soul has traveled to inside the vacuum.

As time presses on we can always look back at poetry to truly understand the emotions that were evoked at the time. In "The Pioneer Women" and "Grandma's Apron. " we are faced with similar although not exactly identical themes and imagery that conduct elements of interest in reference to daily life and objects that hide the truth of what we know. In “The Pioneer Women” we are shipped back to the west and the start of America; more specifically in the work of women.