What if you were dreaming about someone, only to be woken up by the very person you had been dreaming about? This scenario is the focus of this lesser-known John Donne poem, ‘The Dream’, which – as in a number of other John Donne poems – sees the poet trying […]
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A Short Analysis of John Donne’s ‘Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward’
On Donne’s Good Friday poem – analysed by Dr Oliver Tearle As Good Friday approaches, we thought we’d share this Good Friday poem by the metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631), and offer a few brief notes towards an analysis of this poem, written in rhyming couplets, which sees Donne meditating […]
A Short Analysis of John Donne’s ‘The Ecstasy’
Notes towards a commentary on Donne’s ‘The Extasie’ by Dr Oliver Tearle John Donne (1572-1631) didn’t write ordinary love poems. Arguably the first of the ‘metaphysical poets’, Donne writes about love in a refreshingly direct and honest way. And yet, as the label ‘metaphysical’ suggests, his poetry is also full […]