John Donne Full Guide: Startling Imagery In His Exploration of Relationships

“John Donne uses startling imagery and wit in his exploration of relationships.”

Give your response to the poetry of John Donne in the light of this statement. Support your points with the aid of suitable reference to the poems you have studied. (2008 HL Paper II Q2)

Busy old fool, unruly sun

Although John Donne’s poetry is four hundred years old, its startling imagery and wit provides it with an enduring quality that continues to fascinate readers today. Donne’s exploration of relationships encompasses romantic relationships as well as his relationship with God. Indeed in some poems, there is an overlap in terms of language and imagery between physical and spiritual relationships. The essay begins by examining Donne’s imagery and wit in his personal poems and leads to the more religiously-themed poems selected from his Holy Sonnets.

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Full sample answer as well as a comprehensive overview of how to approach this and any other such essay, and detailed notes on all of his poems on the LC course: The Sunne Rising, Song: Go, and catch a falling star, The Anniversarie, Song: Sweetest love, I do not goe, The Dreame (Deare love, for nothing less than thee…), A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, The Flea, Batter my heart, At the round earth’s imagined corners and Thou hast made me.

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