Themes of John Donne Poems
The Good-morrow
The central theme in The Good-morrow is the nature
and completeness of the lovers' world. Donne takes the everyday idea that
lovers live in a world of their own with little sense of reality, and turns it
right round, so that it is the outside world that is unreal. The intensity of
their love is sufficient to create its own reality. When they watch each other,
it is not, as in the outside world, out of fear, but to complete themselves, as
each one is half of the world needing the other half.
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Song: Go and catch a
falling starre…
This is a poem by John Donne in which he argues that it is
impossible to find a woman who is both attractive and faithful to the one man.
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The Sun Rising
In his poem, "The Sun Rising," Donne immerses the
reader into his transmuted reality with an apostrophe to the "busy old
fool, unruly sun" that "through curtains" calls upon him,
seizing him from the bliss which "no season knows." This bliss, a
passionate love, stimulates him to reinvent reality within the confines of his
own mind, a wishful thinking from which he does not readily depart, much like a
sleepy child clings to the consequences of a dream.
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Lovers Infiniteness
This closely reasoned poem deals with ‘Love’s riddles’,
especially the riddle of whether we can ever love another person completely.
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“Air and Angels”
Love
is represented as being something higher than human thought and comprehension. In
“Air and Angels’ love is something that transcends the flesh and the human body
is merely a vessel for this potent emotion. Love in this poem is not
represented as a feeling that is strictly based on outside or shallow
perceptions of beauty but rather, it is projected onto the object of the
affection in a pure and spiritual sense.
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The Anniversarie
Most of us use anniversaries to celebrate. This poem, too,
is a celebratory one, on the completion of the first year of a relationship.
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The Twickham Garden
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A Valediction:
forbidding Mourning
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne was written
to express his feelings for his lover. The poem talks about the feelings of
love being so intense that nothing will ever dull the bond between the two
souls.
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The Extassie
The ecstasy of love is clearly the major theme of The
Extasie. Donne looks at the outward manifestations of it and its inner meaning.
In fact, the understanding he gains is that a revelation has come of what true
love is, which is quite different from his perception before. There is a place
for sex and the physical, but only as an expression of a union of souls.
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The Funerall
The poet's
jilted lover is warned that her woven hair bracelet (a Renaissance tradition)
will still be worn by the lover in his grave where, thereby, "I bury some
of you" (24)--sweet
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