DONNE

DONNE

1. EVENT

   • To His Mistress Going To Bed
     • Metaphor: "Off with that girdle, like heaven's zone glistering, But a far fairer world encompassing
       • By undressing his beloved, he is uncovering far more beautiful things
     • "O my America! my new-found-land"
       • He sees the undressing of his beloved as a conquer, now he possesses her
     • "Full nakedness!"
       • He finds this events exciting, thrilling and liberating
     • "As liberally to a Midwife, shew thy self"
       • During this event, they shoud be open, liberal, comfortable with one an other
   • A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
     • "No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move"
       • Even though they will have to endure a seperation, they will not display dramatic emotion
     • "Like gold to airy thinness beat"
       • Their love will only get stronger as a result of their speration, it will never break
     • "twin compasses"
       • Suggests during their seperation they will always be joined by a common point and will always end up back together

2. TIME

   • The Good Morrow
     • "were we not weaned till then?"
       • Suggests time had passed them by, only now have they grown up
         • "Or snorted in the Seven Sleepers' den"
     • "dream...morrow...waking...now"
       • Time has shown a dramatic change in their love from fantasy to reality, now he has an actual reason to live in the present
     • "none can die"
       • Donne suggests he can defy time, their love will last for eternity
   • The Anniversary
     • "our love hath no decay"
       • Their love can withstand the time constraints of nature
     • "Running it never runs from us away"
       • Time can never escape them, they live for the present day
     • "To write threescore: this is the second of our reign"
       • Suggests their love means they preside over all others, they have time on their hands, he predicts their love will last for many years to come

3. PLACE

   • Twicknam Garden
     • "hither I come to seek the spring"
       • The garden represents the spring and new life
     • "Make me a mandrake so I may grow here, or a stone fountain weeping out my year"
       • Donne wants to remain part of the woman's life, even if it is not as her lover
     • "true paradise, I have the serpent brought"
       • Donne suggests that he presence in the garden has turned it into a place of despair and grief
     • "a grave frost did forbid these trees to laugh, and mock me to my face"
       • The garden is a painful reminded that their love is unrequited
   • The Sun Rising
     • "Through windows and through curtains call on us"
       • The absence of adjectives suggests that the bedroom is not important to Donne - he is not concerned with reality
     • "And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lie"
       • The bed represents the whole world
     • "She's all states, and all princes I"
       • Suggests that she is everywhere, and he is ruler of that
     • "This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere"
       • Their bedroom in the universe and their bed is at the centre of that