As a fist thought, when I first heard about John Donne I thought that he was a man like Shakespeare, who wrote about love stories, tragedies, cience and religion, because he belied in this kind of ideas, but when I first rea one of his poems, my idea of the topics really changed.
In the first poem that we read, named "The Flea", that is about how to convince a girl to have sex with you. As a reader, you never read this phrase but with the use of literary devices like wit that is also helped with the mood , theme and irony as a main device . In this case, he wrote about a flea, that could be represented as a the thing that keept them in love and this is the argument that the man used so that she has sex with him; nowadays.This idea could be similar to the idea of fire that represents love, but the main difference could be that the flea is somethig moreover than just fire, the flea can die baus someones decides it and it would be fast, and to estinguish all the fire, you need a lot of things. Well that was my point of view when I first read it, but when we talked about it in class, all these ideas were wrong, because the objective and theme is to have sex with the girl.
On the other hand, in "Holy Sonnet VI" he wrote about how death is something that it is consirdered the worst thing of the world, in this poem with a little touch of existencialism , says that death is something that is overrated because some people "call it" and others order it. It is also compared the the idea of going to sleep, but going to sleep is more pleasant . In this poem, we can see that Donne was someone that was not scare, nor interested in death because it was something that just happens and that people put it in the position of the worst thing; that's why many people fear it.
As I've read poems of John Donne, I can't imagine someone that has written something simmilar, because he is a very polisemic guy that can really talk about anything and that with the literary figures, he could really manke you change your ideas, something that other poets have never done with me.
In conclusion, I think that John Donne is a great poet, and some of his poems are very interesting, because you do not get the idea at first sight, but you need to read it several times to understand it, but he is not someone that I would read, because many of the times, he talks about sex and women with wit, and I do not really understand that kind of games, neither in Spanish nor English, so it is kind of difficult to understand those poems.
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