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 Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:54 pm
I don't usually go for poetry, but for some reason Donne's poetry really appeals to me. My favorite of his I think is "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning", if I remember the title correctly. My one regret is that I know there's more to the poems, but it hasn't clicked yet. I can't wait until it does, I love that feeling when you see something that's written in a whole new light. He also writes "Go and Catch a Falling Star" that's well known. Has anybody else read any of his works?
Here's a website about him that gives some information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donne,_John
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:45 pm
I've read the one with "Go and catch a falling star" in it (which I very much liked) but nothing else.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:13 am
I've only read the 10 Holy Sonnets, and that was some time back...I do remember liking them, I believe it was for the diction.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:49 am
I did Donne (among other poets) for my IB English exam. I love a Valediction Forbidding Mourning. The compass metaphor is probably one of the cleverest metaphors I've ever come across. He builds it up so well.
Apart from that one I also liked The Sun Rising. The Flea is really clever but it never really grabbed me.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:38 pm
My prayer book has many of his works. mrgreen
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:28 pm
I just finished a nice, intense, overview of Donne in my Major British Writer's course. His poetry is really quite complex and lovely. Like T. S. Eliot's, sort of. Unless I have my facts confused, Eliot "resurrected" Donne as far as popular opinion went. 3nodding
My favorite poem (so far) is The Undertaking.
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Romantic Conversationalist
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