John Donne's Poetry is Emotionally Intense, Full of Passionate Feelings and Opinionated Attitudes - Discuss.

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Stephen Jenkins                                                        5th December 2001

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English

John Donne’s Poetry is Emotionally Intense,

Full of Passionate Feelings and Opinionated Attitudes.

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 “The Sunne Rising”, “The Anniversary”, “The Apparition” and “A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day; Being the Shortest Day” are four poems written in the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century by a poet named John Donne. Around the time of William Shakespeare, when these poems were written, he was renowned for his poems about love, death, hate and many other strong emotions, which are displayed in each of the four aforementioned poems. Later on in his life, he went on to concentrate on writing poems on religion rather than love. He was a committed Catholic in a time when Catholics ruled the country.

All of the poems are written for a woman and show his intense emotions towards this woman. It is unknown whether the woman in each of the poems is the same woman because of the unknown time at which each of the poems was written. The poems all show his passionate feelings, opinionated attitudes and intense emotions towards various different people and objects, mainly the woman, who is central to each poem.

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        In this essay I will discuss John Donne’s emotions and feelings present throughout his poems.

        His writing expresses a wide variety of expressions and feelings, opinions, emotions and attitudes. In all of the poems Donne describes intensely, to the best of his ability, the experience of love. I will start by analyzing John Donne’s emotions in “The Sunne Rising”. In this first poem, his intense love for a woman is clearly evident. He begins the poem by insulting and belittling the sun by saying:

        “ Busie old foole, unruly, Sunne ”

Here, Donne uses a shorter line than ...

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