Essays on John Donne

Death, Be Not Proud, by John Donne is a poem that directly addresses death, searching to deprive it of its powers arguing that dying from fate, is more powerful than death itself. The speaker paints a picture of death as an arrogant, and a super…

Death is an inevitable and a natural process of living even though it is feared by most humans. For some people, death is a gateway from the world into a life of immortality and after life whereas some see it as the last step of…

This essay intends to do a close reading on two sonnets, ‘Death, be not proud’ by John Donne and With How Sad Steps by Sir Philip Sidney: with the aim to compare the two sonnets to highlight how two sonnets on very different topics still…

John Donne (1572-1631) is considered to be one of Britain’s greatest poets of the 17th century as his poetry holds a unique position in Renaissance literature. Those who admire his work consider him to be one of Britain’s greatest metaphysical love poets of his time….

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…