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Love: suffering or resurrection.
An author, John Donne has expressed two significant themes of love in his poems.
The following essay talks about the relationships between religious and romantic love.
Poems that are introduced in this essay show a reflection of poets opinions and feelings
about different kinds of love. Three poems: “The Broken Heart”, “A Hymn To Christ At
The Authors Last Going Into Germany”, and “Hymn To God, In My Sickness” chosen
and carefully deconstructed and explained. The main points of three poems are about how
they reflect different kinds of love and how human soul reacts to this love. In
John Donnes poems love is being described in different forms such as love to God and
love to a human even though those two kinds are different, Donne describes them as one.
This essay is based on comparing poems and finding the relationship between religious
and romantic love.
First poem that will be examined called a “The Broken Heart”. This poem talks about
strong feelings of love and desire that are too strong to handle for a human soul.
“He is stark mad, whoever says,
That he hath been in love an hour”(Donne, 1-2)
Author explains that real love is a very strong feeling and in his opinion no man can ever
truly overcome it. He explains that human soul dies a lot faster than true love. Love lives
forever but no human heart can hold it for more than few breaths of life. Love is very
violent and when people are not careful with it, it may destroy them.
“Who will believe me, if I swear
That I have had the plague a year?
Who would not laugh at me, if I should say
I saw a flash of powder burn a day?”(Donne, 5-8)
Its hard to believe anyone who says that he or she loved for an hour as someone saying
that he saw a flash of powder burning for an hour or someone having a plague for a
whole year. Poet is making a point that he does not and will not believe anyone who says
that he loved for at least and hour. Second stanza of the poem deals with power of love
and how it affects the heart.
“All other griefs allow a part
To other griefs, and ask themselves but some;
They come to us, but us love draws;
He swallows us and never chaws;” (Donne, 11-13)
He expresses that when heart is occupied with love it only spends little part of it for
other grieves, but it will be swallowed by love completely. Love will take over all of the f
feelings and heart will be paralyzed with its power. Poet is explaining that love is very
strong and powerful and that everyone who wants to let it in their hearts should be very
careful before they do it. In the third stanza poet makes a reference to himself asking his
lady what is she doing with his heart.
“If it had gone to thee, I know
Mine would have taught thine heart to show
More pity unto me; but Love, alas!
At one first blow did shiver it as glass.” (Donne, 21-24)
He feels that she destroys him and asks her to have some kindness and respect to his
feelings but instead, she has no mercy and breaks it into little pieces. In this part the
tone is very gloomy and hopeless. Poet is devoured up by endless misery and despair. He
doesnt have any hope for love any longer. At the end, the author says that all those
pieces are still there in his soul and can still reflect feelings but will never be the same.
“My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,
But after one such love, can love no more” (Donne, 31-32)
Irony is used here because poet is talking about how he does not believe when people
are talking about love, because love made him a victim and changed him forever. Donne
is trying to say that everyone can love only for once all other feelings will never be so
powerful and strong as before. Heart is very innocent and trustful, but once it gets
betrayed it will never trust again.
Poem, “A Hymn To Christ At The Authors Last Going Into Germany”, is a beautiful
poem which talks about lost soul that is looking for love and is ready to give up
everything to get it.
“That ship shall be my emblem of thy ark;
What sea soever swallow me, that flood
Shall be to me an emblem of thy blood” (Donne, 2-4)