why?

Those blest flowers that dwell
At the rough stream's calm head, thrive and do well,
But having left their roots, and themselves given
To the stream's tyrannous rage, alas, are driven
Through mills, and rocks, and woods, and at last, almost
Consum'd in going, in the sea are lost.

 

"Satire III" from John Donne   is a critique  to religion, no matter wich one, where   he asks  himself  which one is the true religion? which    do we need  to follow? what  do we do in te era where the religions are fighting? and  in my case, I discovered  under all those  words, what sometimes I feel about  religion,  because even thought that at  home they are catholics,  I sometimes  feel that  this  is not ok,  church   had been lost from a long time and  if we  look for the story of   religion, it  has been  the main cause for many conflicts.

 

 In the poem, the  main  idea is "which one is the true religion?"  because  in the era when he lived,   there were many conflicts  between the diferent religions and  he  wonders which one is the true religion and  encourage  you to  look for the true religion. Almost at the end of the poem,  he stops criticizing the  church  and  he  starts  to talk  about religion like fashion, like something that had been lost since  long time ago  and he says that   even thought that it  is something that everyone can look at,  nobody looks for it , because  we feel  it  unnecesarly  because  we follow the rules,  but we do not follow the real rules, God's rules. 

In this poem we can notice that John Donne  was confused  because of all the changes lived  in the  most important thing for him  and    he questions each of the  personalities that created those religions,  so they show him  whichone is the true religion, but at the end he gives up and understands that   no matter  what do they do him,  the  rules, the religion   an everything is ruled  by God, and he will  be  the  guy that will  judge  everyone  under the same conditions,  his rules, not  others. 

 

In my opinion, I think that "satire III" really open your eyer and  make you wonder  which  is the truth, why do I follow somebody  else that  could have the same questions  that I have ? and  I could  not expect  less from  someone that had lived many  problems between the  religions,  and   if someone   nowadays  say something like this could  be considered  atheist, but the truth  is that    he or she doesn's know what  to  do, which  ideology to follow because  all of them  include anything that he or she wants, but he or she  just want to look for the truth. In my case, I can conseder myself as  that percent  of people that asks  why? to the  higher leaders because   you  want the truth not anything else.