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Feb 23, 2016 · Here we’ve condensed the complete poetical works of John Donne into ten of his best-known and most celebrated poems. What is your favourite John Donne poem? And can you choose one classic Donne poem?
'Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds, Which he in her angelic finds, Would swear as justly that he hears, In that day's rude hoarse minstrelsy, the spheres. Hope not for mind in women; at their best. Sweetness and wit, they'are but mummy, possess'd. More About This Poem.
Whether celebrating the joyous moments, navigating the trials and tribulations, or simply cherishing the everyday moments of togetherness, these poems invite us to reflect on the profound significance of marriage.
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In the first stanza of ‘Love’s Growth’, the poet says that he does no longer believe his love to be so pure (simple and unmixed, hence not subjectto change), and mixed, as he had earlier supposed it to be, because now he discovers that his love is subject to seasonal fluctuations and changes like the grass. Throughout the winter, the poet lied when...
In the second stanza of ‘Love’s Growth’, this love is like a medicine that cures sorrow (on the homeopathic principle) by giving the patient more sorrow. Love is not a pure and unmixed essence that has sustaining and curative powers. It is rather a compound, mixed stuff, made up of different elements or experiences, and hence it causes pain and suf...
The poet here in ‘Love’s Growth’ says his love is not made larger by the spring, but more prominent, as in heaven, stars are not enlarged but revealed by the sun (the poet may mean here that as we would not be able to see the stars were not for the light which they reflect from the sun so we would not know of the existence of love, which is not for...
Through this extract of ‘Love’s Growth’, the poet, John Donne, says that if love takes such additions (gentle love deeds), as more circles are produced by one stirred in water, those, like so many spheres, make only one heaven, for they are all centered in her. When the poet says: Spheres, he refers to the Ptolemaic astronomy, the spheres were a se...
Feb 14, 2023 · In celebration of and the upcoming paperback publication of Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell has curated a few of John Donne’s ‘sexiest, funniest and boldest’ poems about love. If you were forced, by some tyrannical abridging fairy, to compress Donne’s life into exactly 200 words, it might be this:
Jan 14, 2016 · Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) was UK Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death, and became one of Britain’s best-loved poets of the twentieth century. When his Collected Poems was published in 1955, it was a bestseller. Below is our selection of Betjeman’s best poems, along with a short summary of each poem and a link to where you can read it.
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It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.” ― John Donne
