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Verse 1: (This verse owes much to Ovid’s Amores II:4) I can love fair and dark-haired women, the plump and the skinny, the woman who loves solitude and the woman who enjoys society with its masked balls and its (sexual) pleasures and entertainments, the country girl and the town girl, the girl who has faith, and the girl who tests things by experience, the one that weeps and the one that is ...
Feb 23, 2016 · By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) John Donne's poetry is a curious mix of contradictions. At once spiritual and metaphysical, it is also deeply embedded in the physicality of bodies: love as a physical, corporeal experience as well as a spiritual high. His style can often be startlingly plain ('For God's sake hold your tongue',…
This poem is part of John Donne's Holy Sonnets sequence, which was probably written during the years 1609-1611 and meditates on God, death, divine love, and faith. "Holy Sonnet 14" comes later in the series and depicts a speaker's personal crisis of faith. The poem also boldly compares God's divine love to a rough, erotic seduction.
John Donne wrote Holy Sonnet XIV in 1609, and it is found in the Westmoreland Manuscript and, later, in Divine Meditations (1935). Holy Sonnets focus on religious matters, and, particularly, on themes such as mortality, divine love, and divine judgment. In Holy Sonnets, John Donne writes his poems in the traditional Italian sonnet form.
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Jul 6, 2020 · Victorian readers found Donne’s comparison of God’s effect on his life to the violent act of ravishment, or rape, so disturbing that the poem basically disappeared from publishing until resurrected in the 20th century through the efforts of the poet T. S. Eliot and others.
Mar 14, 2023 · God is silent throughout the poem. Like the God in “Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart, three-person’d God, the Sun in The Sun Rising, Death in Death Be Not Proud, the beloved in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, etc., we have noticed the addressee is silent in most of Donne’s poems and the speaker plays a dominant role.
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Best Poems About God. 1 God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins; 2 Paradise Lost by John Milton 3 The Dream of the Rood by Anonymous 4 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church by Emily Dickinson; 5 A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne; 6 God’s World by Edna St. Vincent Millay 7 To Find God by Robert Herrick; 8 Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot
