That’s really incredible, how people at the time were talking about death, it’s really a very good review, thank you very much
@Mr.H-Literature
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! It's a great poem for sure.
@whoami9917
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir, I am really grateful for your help 🙃🥰🕊️💜
@Mr.H-Literature
2 жыл бұрын
Happy to do it.
@mduduzishabalala3056
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@Mr.H-Literature
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@mujtabairaq9433
3 жыл бұрын
I loooovveee u sir thank you so much from iraq please explan the poem like as a ship
@Mr.H-Literature
3 жыл бұрын
That's a nice sonnet by Edmund Spenser. I've done two others by him that may help you understand that one. He was in love with a woman who did not love him back. He compares himself to a ship at sea and her to a star. Ships use stars for navigation, so she is the point by which he sets his bearings and directs his life. Unfortunately, his sorrow at not having her is so great that he symbolizes it as clouds, which make navigation difficult because the sailors cannot see the sky.
@mujtabairaq9433
3 жыл бұрын
@@Mr.H-Literature Thank you so much
@arianalllo3585
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!!!!!!
@Mr.H-Literature
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome 😊
@salimalshati3956
Жыл бұрын
I think the poet is really afraid of death and to reduce his fear , he is trying to pretend that death is not so frightening
@Mr.H-Literature
Жыл бұрын
We'll never be able to jump into Donne's head and know. He was a famous preacher who wrote a number of meditations that touch on the idea of mortality, though, and this poem is consistent with his views, even those dating back to his earliest writings. He could, as you say, have been attempting to cope with the idea of nonexistence and making a show of bravado, but it's far easier to support an argument by taking him at his word than by assuming the opposite. My two cents.
@mokhtarzeboudj5086
3 жыл бұрын
What are the rules to know which is the A B C D
@Mr.H-Literature
3 жыл бұрын
You're looking at the last word of each line and what rhymes with it. The first line is always A. For the remainder of the stanza, any ending word that rhymes with that will also be marked A. The first ending word that does not rhyme with A is labeled B. Any word in the rest of the stanza that rhymes with that will be labeled B. Then C, D , E, and so on. It's a difficult concept to explain clearly in writing. Hopefully that does it.
@mujtabairaq9433
3 жыл бұрын
Where u from?
@Mr.H-Literature
3 жыл бұрын
@@mujtabairaq9433 Virginia, USA.
@mujtabairaq9433
3 жыл бұрын
@@Mr.H-Literature nice to speak with you sir you saved me from a hard homework 😁
@Mr.H-Literature
3 жыл бұрын
@@mujtabairaq9433 glad I could help.
@robertgainer2783
Жыл бұрын
The allusion to the Grim Reaper is inaccurate. Death was personified in English literature from the early Middle Ages, but the personification of the Grim Reaper did not occur until halfway through the 19th century, well over 200 years after Donne wrote this poem.
@robertgainer2783
Жыл бұрын
Though to be fair, I am reminded of Shakespeare’s sonnet 12 and “Time’s scythe” (original capitalisation of Time). So maybe, although not yet known as the Grim Reaper, the personification of a scythe-bearing Death is accurate after all. We would label that personification as the Grim Reaper, but Donne would not have. Yet that is perhaps semantics, given that the notion is one and the same (or at least relatable).
@Mr.H-Literature
Жыл бұрын
I swear I replied to this already. Dunno where that went. You sparked my curiosity, and it looks like the idea of the Grim Reaper began to solidify in the 1400's. For example, the figure of a skeletal Death appears in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, written sometime between 1387 and 1400. However, the more modern Grim Reaper really took off during the plague of 1665, which was 32 years after Donne published his poem. Good observation and thanks for sending me down that particular rabbit hole!
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