John Donne Life Stages Through Facts And His Poems

The second stage of John Donne life is characterized by a sudden settlement. John found reason to stop playing with women’s and settle in a calmer lifestyle.  He slowly stabilized, into a usual routine. In this stage of his life John Donne married Anne Donne. In this brief passage John started suffering due to love, and mainly theme his poem about Love and pain. This chapter in his life can be sensed in the poem A Valediction: Of Weeping. In this poem, he tries to convince his sick and pregnant wife to not be sad even though he was leaving to Europe for a while. Here, John love for his wife, the faith he had I her, and how much he cares for her is portrayed.  Again this poem is about Love a general characteristic of metaphysical poetry.

The third stage of John Donne life is marked by the death of his wife. He was field grief. This passage of his life can be described as dark, cold, and depressing. As he was field with pain John found redemption and relief in writing. He was left alone with his seven sons and daughters, this was a time of loneliness, but also wisdom.  His first writing after the death of his wife, was the XVII Holy Sonnet. In this Sonnet John, is again writing about love. However here Love is mixed with faith and religion. We can definitely see a significant growth of his belief and opinions. He saw the death of his wife as a knock over.  God as knocked him over, by taking his wife away. He questions why he as helped him find her in order to finally take her away.

        Significant changes in John’s life and belief can be observed through his poem. Due to his themes and ways of writing have made possible to define three different passage in his life. Those stages,  have been sculpted by the environment and the people he meet.

Go catch  a falling star is a poem of John Donne. He wrote this poem during is early writing stage and his early years of life. As a young man Donne was described as a player, not believing in Love and having no faith in women’s. In go catch a falling star Love is described as being impossible as he tells the reader that a faithful woman is unnatural and inexistent, therefor true love can’t exist. John believed that true love could not be found, that no woman was to be trusted.

Go catch a falling star is an example of a metaphysical poem as it is written in a simple form with simple forms of verses. The poem contains unusual comparisons and similes, he compares women’s to a child with mandrake roots or to a falling star.  In the poem John Donne as an idealised image of the woman which is trying to fetch for, but not finding.

Those are characteristic of metaphysical poetry.