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John Donne Poetry Venn Diagram

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A Valediction & Holy Sonnet 10

Holy Sonnet 10

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Both

  • Subjects: Love, Compassion, Goodbyes, hope, distance
  • Audience: His Wife
  • Theme: "Love is strong and unlike any other", "Love is more than physical", "True love can withstand distance", "Distance makes love stronger"
  • Figurative language Used? Extended metaphor (Compass used to compare their love)
  • Subjects: Death, Grief, Pride, Pain, Denial
  • Audience: Death (personification)
  • Theme: "Death has no power", "Death should not be feared", "Death is powerless without people"
  • Figurative Language Used? Personification (Examples in lines 1 , 4 , 12 , 14 , 9)
  • Written by John Donne
  • Metaphysical poems (Discusses things beyond the physical, often philosophically)