Poem Notes

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

First Stanza
-Valediction=fairwell
-death(start in one direction go in another)
-similie, like
-first half of comparison
-pass mildly=face death without fear(peaceful)

Second Stanza
-second half of comparison
-together(because of, as)
-real goodbye=lovers being seperated
-laity=basic terms or church congregation vs. priest
-profanation=desicrate

Third Stanza
-earthquake
-trepidation=shake in fear
-spheres=planets
-people study it, why earthquakes happened(message from God)
-universse in crtal spheres they sun different speeds and each made different sounds
-put together=song
-outside/beyond=heaven
-even though the spheres are bigger, we aremore scared of the eathquake
-good and virrtuous people can hear the song

Fourth Stanza
-sublunary=earthy
-sence=the thing that caused them to love was physical so when they where apart there was nothing
-can't allow absence

Fith Stanza
-but we are different
refined=pure
-we don't even understand it
-we have a connection in the mind( not only physical)

Sixth Stanza
-our seperation seems huge to us, but in the grand sceme of things it really isn't

Seventh Stanza
-compasses=the kind that draws circles
-"pair of pants"
-difference in the two
-one always fixed, one always moving
-futher one leads, the further one leaves, the further the other one strethces after it
-people yearn to be with each other, come back

Last two stanzas
-she keeps him connected to where she is, so he always comes back together
-full circle
*Donne wrote this poem to his wife when he had to leave

Holy Sonnet VII

-poem about last judgement day
-resurection of the dead=all souls back to body
-tone=order/commanding
-Angel Gabrial blows horn
-narrorator=average joe guy
-thinks things will go his way once he dies(heaven) he's confident
-never die, live untill judgement day
-italian sonnet= ABBA ABBA(turn line 9) last 6 lines vary
-After turn he relizes hes not ready for judgement day
-it's not good to apoligize for your sins while in front of God (dead)
-teach me how to repent while we are still on earth
-if i repent now im okay

Holy Sonnet XIV

-aggresive, angry, violent poem
-three person'd god=trinity father/son/holy ghost
-need to suffer
-if your not giving yourself over willingly i will take you anyway
-gaurd against sin
-simillie between town and heart
-faith been taken over
-God=faith
-Saten=sin
-reason should defend me
-asking for divine intervention (im willing to do anything)
-know difference between right and wrong
-reason=weak/untrue
-we second guess(our fault)
-marriage=holy
-divorse=sin
-bad things good, good things bad
-i want to be free, but when im free i fall into trap
-i want to be imprisioned
-asking to be raped by God
-in the end i will come out better if you help me
-so you will build me the right way, i am willing
-expect shoking metophor

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