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- I saw a star slide down the sky, Blinding the north as it went by, Too burning and too quick to hold, Too lovely to be bought or sold, Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone.
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Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.
The Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star, also known simply as Song, is a poem by John Donne, one of the leading English metaphysical poets.
- Stanza One
- Stanza Two
- Stanza Three
In the first stanza of this piece the speaker begins by telling the listener to “Go and catch a falling star.” It is for this line that the poem is best known and is only the first representative of the outlandish tasks the speaker sets out. The next is to “Get with child,” or impregnate, a “mandrake root.” Both of these statements have a magical m...
In the second stanza, he reveals the true purpose of this piece, to complain about the unfair way he has been treated by women. He expresses his belief that there are no women who are “true, and fair” or honest and beautiful, in the world. In the first lines, he tells the listener that maybe if “thou be’st born to strange sight.” Or more simply, if...
In the final nine lines of ‘Song: Go and catch a falling star’ the speaker states that if “thou find’st” a woman who is both of these things, true and fair, then he will go on a “pilgrimage” to find her. He would suffer if there was a chancehe could find the perfect partner. He knows that this isn’t going to be the case though so he does not go. Th...
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The poem "Falling Star" by Sara Teasdale is a very short poem about a shooting star and its beauty. The poem describes a falling star that flies through the sky, but, because of its...
May 17, 2017 · ‘Song’, often known by its first line, ‘Go and catch a falling star’, is an unusual poem among John Donne’s work in several ways. It doesn’t use the extended metaphors that we find in some of Donne’s greatest poetry, and yet it remains one of his most popular and widely known works.
Jul 8, 2020 · John Donne enforced a tight structure on his song Go and Catch a Falling Star (1630), with three stanzas each containing sestets with a rhyme scheme of ababcc and concluding with a rhyming triplet.
