The Anniversary - Donne

Summary
1. Love makes us great again
  1. Bold
2. Telling the story of the anniversary
  1. The second stanza is the future
Theme / Ideas of love and relationship
1. Love makes them royal and better than others
  1. Symatic field of royalty
    1. "All kings. All glory' of honours, beauties, wits"
      1. A person will lose everything but love within a lifetime
2. The speaker and his lover have a bold love
  1. It can be measured against time as it is more powerful
    1. The first anniversary is measured by the sun
      1. "The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass"
3. The love will continue after death - it is powerful also it comes from the souls
  1. "And then we shall be throughly blest, but we no more than all rest"
  2. They will decay but the love the two of them share won't
    1. "Must leave at last in death, these eyes and ears, oft fed with true oaths, and with sweet salt tears"
Termiology
1. Rhyming couplets
  1. "Ears, Tears"
    1. "Attain, Reign"
2. High frequency lexis
  1. Graves
    1. Kings
    2. Death
3. Symatic Field
  1. Royalty
  2. Death
Compare Poem
1. A Jet Ring Sent

Resource summary

	Created by Chloe Pilkington about 7 years ago