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    Donne's love poetry covers a variety of topics including physical cynicism, faith in love, married life, secret meetings, joy and sorrow. His poems treat common love experiences in an original way. He analyzes attitudes like cynicism, Platonic love, and conjugal love. Donne believed that love must involve both the soul and body, and his concept of love is realistic.

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    John Donne's Love Poetry

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    Donne's love poetry covers a variety of topics including physical cynicism, faith in love, married life, secret meetings, joy and sorrow. His poems treat common love experiences in an original way. He analyzes attitudes like cynicism, Platonic love, and conjugal love. Donne believed that love must involve both the soul and body, and his concept of love is realistic.

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    Donne's love poetry covers a variety of topics including physical cynicism, faith in love, married life, secret meetings, joy and sorrow. His poems treat common love experiences in an original way. He analyzes attitudes like cynicism, Platonic love, and conjugal love. Donne believed that love must involve both the soul and body, and his concept of love is realistic.

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    John Donne's Love Poetry

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    Donne's love poetry covers a variety of topics including physical cynicism, faith in love, married life, secret meetings, joy and sorrow. His poems treat common love experiences in an original way. He analyzes attitudes like cynicism, Platonic love, and conjugal love. Donne believed that love must involve both the soul and body, and his concept of love is realistic.

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    DONNES LOVE POETRY

    - 1 -
    METAPHYSICAL POETRY OF JOHN DONNE
    DONNES LOVE POETRY
    The variety and scoe o! Donne"s #ove oetry is tr$#y re%ar&a'#e(
    He osci##ates 'et)een hysica# cynicis% and !aith in #ove and
    a'ove a## the sanctity and di*nity o! %arried #i!e( He is +$ite
    ori*ina# in resentin* #ove sit$ations and %oods( Part#y they are
    'ased on co%%on e,eriences o! his conte%oraries and art#y
    on his o)n e,eriences(
    His oe%s are entire#y di-erent !ro% the E#i.a'ethan #ove/#yrics(
    He is $nconventiona# and ori*ina#( His #ove son*s are a '#end o!
    sensi'i#ity and )it0 o! 1oy and scorn0 o! 'ea$ty and re$#sion(
    Another ec$#iar +$a#ity o! his #ove oetry is its %etahysica#
    strain )hich is evident in his scho#asticis%0 his *a%e o! $sin*
    !antastic conceits0 his hyer'o#es and arado,es(
    Donne"s treat%ent o! #ove is rea#istic and not idea#istic( He &no)s
    the )ea&nesses o! the 2esh0 the #eas$res o! se, and the 1oy o!
    secret %eetin*s )hi#e E#i.a'ethan #ove/#yrics are 'y #ar*e
    i%itation o! the Petrarchan traditions( Donne"s #ove oe%s stand
    in a c#ass the%se#ves( Donne"s #ove oe%s are entire#y
    $nconventiona#( He rather %oc&s at the%( Donne is !$##y
    ac+$ainted o! the Petrarchan %ode# )here )o%an is an o'1ect o!
    'ea$ty0 #ove and er!ection( They se#do% dea# )ith the 1oy o! #ove
    and the dee content%ent o! %$t$a# assion 3the on#y e,cetion
    is Sha&eseare4( There are a#)ays ains and sorro)s o! #ove0 the
    sorro) o! a'sence0 the ain o! re1ection0 the inco%ara'#e 'ea$ty
    o! the #ady0 and here $n)averin* cr$e#ty( 5$t Donne treats s$ch
    set the%es in a di-erent )ay( His $tter rea#is% !orces hi% to *ive
    the sa%e i%ortance to)ards 'ody and so$#( He esta'#ishes a
    re#ationshi 'et)een 'ody and so$# that hysica# #ove #eads to
    sirit$a# #ove as in 6The E,tasie7( That is )hy 1oy is do%inant in
    his oetry(
    He *ives 'irth to ne) &ind o! #ove oetry( The #ove )hich he
    ortrays is not i%assioned0 co$rt#y or chiva#ric0 '$t inte##ect$a#
    #ove in )hich art #ays a redo%inant art( There are three
    distinct strains in his #ove oetry0 cynica#0 the P#atonic and
    con1$*a#(
    Donne ana#yses the attit$des and %oods o! #ove( In his oe%s
    )ith cynica# strain0 he !re+$ent#y d)e##s on the 8c&#eness o!
    )o%en( His son*0 'e*innin* )ith *o and catch a !a##in* star ends
    )ith a 'itter %oc&in* and cynicis%( Faith!$# )o%an does not e,ist
    on this earth and i! there is0 she )i## rove !aith#ess even 'e!ore
    the oet visits her9
    Yet she )i## 'e !a#se0
    Ere I co%e0 to t)o0 or three0
    EASY LEARNING NOTES BY: MUHAMMD AAMIR SAEED
    DONNES LOVE POETRY
    - 2 -
    Then his oe% 6The Messa*e7 a#so #earns the cynica# strain
    )hich starts )ith the sentence
    6Send ho%e %y #on* strayd eyes to %e 6(
    There is no P#atonis% here '$t 'itter satire a*ainst )o%en( Then
    a*ain he is an*ry at )o%en"s in8de#ity )hen he says that *raves
    a#so *ive #ace to %ore than erson as )o%en share their 'eds
    )ith %ore than one %an 0in 6The Re#i+$e7
    The second strain !o$nd in Donne"s #ove oetry is P#atonic( In
    s$ch oe%s the oet has addressed to the Lady 5ed!ord and Mrs(
    Her'ert( Here Donne adots the hoe#ess and adorin* ose o!
    Petrarchan( His oe%s 6T)ic&na% :arden707The F$nera##70
    6The 5#osso%e7 and 6The Re#i+$e7 are e,a%#es o! his
    oe%s )ith P#atonic strain( Tho$*h )o%en in *enera# are !a#se
    and !aith#ess0 the oet"s s)eetheart is an e,cetion(
    A## %eas$re and a## #an*$a*e I sho$#d ass0
    Sho$#d I te## )hat a %irac#e she )as; 3The Re#i+$e4(
    The third strain in Donne"s #ove oetry is that o! con1$*a# #ove(
    Most o! his son*s0 )ritten a!ter his %arria*e0 contain this strain(
    The Anniversary )as )ritten to ce#e'rate the second anniversary
    o! his )eddin*( Married #i!e &no)s no chan*e or decay( It is
    i%%orta# and %$st contin$e even in the *rave(
    Si%i#ar#y0 the son* 'e*innin* )ith <S)eetest #ove" is addressed to
    his )i!e )hen the oet )as to $nderta&e !orei*n trave#( He 'ids
    !are)e## to his )i!e cheer!$##y0 'eca$se this searation is
    te%orary( This searation is #i&e a s#ee9
    65$t thin& that )e0
    Are )ho '$t t$rned aside to s#ee7
    Another oe% = 6A va#ediction79 !or'iddin* %o$rnin* re!ers to a
    te%orary searation( The oet co%ares the 1o$rney )ith the
    t)o #e*s o! a co%ass0 one re%ainin* 8,ed and the other %ovin*
    to co%#ete the circ#e(
    >hat )e can conc#$de is that Donne"s concet o! #ove is rea#istic(
    He accets that #ove is a %er*er o! so$#s '$t 'odies cannot 'e
    i*nored(
    6Love %$st not 'e0 '$t ta&e a 'ody too7
    3Air and An*e#4
    6Loves %ysteries in so$#s doe *ro)(
    EASY LEARNING NOTES BY: MUHAMMD AAMIR SAEED
    DONNES LOVE POETRY
    - 3 -
    5$t yet the 'ody is his 'oo&e7( 3The
    E,tasie4
    Donne 'e#ieves in recirocated #ove
    6Tho$ and I Love so a#i&e0
    That none doe s#ac&en0 none can die
    Hence recirocated #ove )hich accets the i%ortance o! 'odies
    a#so is a #ove !or ever(
    POINTS TO REMEMBER
    The variety and scoe o! Donne"s #ove oetry is tr$#y
    re%ar&a'#e
    His oe%s are entire#y di-erent !ro% the E#i.a'ethan #ove/
    #yrics
    Donne"s treat%ent o! #ove is rea#istic and not idea#istic
    He *ives 'irth to ne) &ind o! #ove oetry
    oe%s )ith cynica# strain
    Poe%s )ith P#atonic strain
    Poe%s )ith Con1$*a# strain(
    Conc#$sion
    EASY LEARNING NOTES BY: MUHAMMD AAMIR SAEED

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