Essays on John Donne

In this essay I will discuss two poems, “The Flea” written by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress,” written by Andrew Marvell. Both poems are written during the Renaissance Period during the early to mid-1600s by highly educated authors. Although not written to relate…

John Donne’s metaphysical poem, “At the round earth’s imagined corners…”, is based upon an extract from the Book of Revelation. It is written in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet, and it contains a variety of literary techniques designed to portray attitudes to death. The…

John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 9 Analysis “If Poisonous Minerals,” is Holy Sonnet 9 written by John Donne. In this Sonnet, a religious man is having a conversation with God and questions him as to why humans are being punished for their sins when God’s other…

John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14 shows a speaker pleading and demanding God to be more forceful in his ways to save him because His gentle ways aren’t effective anymore, and only dominating power and brute force will be able to save him from his sin….

Kushal’s Speech on John Donne Poetry and W;t In what ways do Donne and Edson represent ‘the kingdom of the well and … the kingdom of the sick’ in their texts? Compose the oral presentation you would give. The kingdom of well and the kingdom…