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Coy Mistress John Donne
1,241 wordsCharles Simic An interpretation of Charles Simic's poem Cabbage is as a parody of Andrew Marvells To My Coy Mistress and John Donne's The Flea. These are two well-known seventeenth-century carpe diem love poems (The Explicator). I choose this poem because it is one of his most famous. Some of Simic's best known works challenge the dividing line between ordinary and extraordinary. He gives substance and even life to inanimate objects to such ordinary objects like a knife or spoon (CAO). Or in thi...
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Early Modern Anglican Church
883 wordsEarly Modern Conceit The Early Modern Period was an era full of self concern. To say it was a selfish period may be going too far, but the people definitely were consumed with their causes. It was during this time that Columbus sailed and conquered the new world. The English were claiming land everywhere. Henry VIII was Supreme Head on Earth of the English church, (as if the English church actually existed anywhere else on Earth), the undisputed religious and political master. Theater and the ar...
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Donne Roman Catholic
231 wordsConceits on John Donne? s? The Flea? John Donne was born into an old Roman Catholic family. At age 11 he entered the University of Oxford, where he studied for three years. He spent the next three years at the University on Cambridge, but took no degree at either university. In 1593, Donne? s younger brother died in prison after being arrested for harboring a priest. Donne relinquished his Roman Catholic faith and joined the Anglican Church. His first book of poems, Satires, was written during t...
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Kind Of Love Physical Attraction
274 wordsThis John Donne 2 Song This poem by John Donne is about a relationship with him and his lover. In this relationship he has to leave even though he does not want to. He compares their separation to death and says since they go through small separations like these that they will be ready for a big separation such as death. He says, To use myself in jest, Thus by feigned deaths to die. This means that their parting will not last forever. He also compares their separation to the sun. This comparison...
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