Analysis Of The Ecstasy By John Donne

John Donne’s poems are similar in their content. They usually point out at same topics like love, lust, sex and religion; only they are dissimilar in the feelings they express. These subjects reflect the different stages of his life: the lust of his youth, the love of his married middle age, and the piety of the latter part of his life. His poem,’ The Flea’ represents the restless feeling of lust during his youthful days but it comes together with a true respect for women through the metaphysical conceit of the flea as a church in the rhythm of the sexual act.

A text is essentially a product of its context, as its prevailing values are inherently derived by the author from society. However, the emergence of post-modern theories allows for audience interpretation, thus it must be recognised that meaning in texts can be shaped and reshaped. Significantly, this may occur as connections between texts are explored. These notions are reflected in the compostion of Edson’s W;t and Donne’s poetry as their relationship is established through intertextual references, corresponding values and ideas and the use of language features. Edson particularly portrays key values surrounding the notions of the importance of loved based relationships, and death and resurrection: central themes of Donne’s Holy Sonnets

Unlike other forms of literature, poetry can be so complex that everyone who reads it may see something different. Two poets who are world renowned for their ability to transform reader’s perceptions with the mere use of words, are TS Eliot and Walt Whitman. “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot, tells the story of a man who is in love and contemplating confessing his emotions, but his debilitating fear of rejection stops him from going through with it. This poem skews the reader’s expectations of a love song and takes a critical perspective of love while showing all the damaging emotions that come with it. “Song of myself”, by Walt Whitman provokes a different emotion, one of joy and self-discovery. This poem focuses more on the soul and how it relates to the body. “Song of myself” and “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” both explore the common theme of how the different perceptions of the soul and body can affect the way the speaker views themselves, others, and the world around them.

Love is perhaps one of the most contested issues in the world. No one has a precise definition of what love really should look or feel like. Most people have resorted to use their own experiences in love to effectively derive its true meaning. Through these experiences, philosophers have argued that the definition of love varies greatly depending on whether it was given by a man or a woman. This is however not the case. As proven by the narratives of Beauvoir and Sartre, the definitions of love derived from the experiences of both men and women are quite similar. Consequentially, Beauvoir’s account of the woman in love sheds important light on Sartre’s conflicting thought about love. By first highlighting the concepts of love as stated by Beauvoir, this text seeks to establish how Beauvoir’s account of love lays a vital foundation for Sartre’s.

Lauren scrambled forward, but her choppy steps were no match for the deep drifts. Icy snow fell over the top piping on her boots and packed around her socks. Although her leg muscles bulked at the cold and extra weight, she forged onward, her breath hacking against the wind.

The two poems “Magic of Love” by Helen Farries and “Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims are both poems with the central theme of love. The ways that these two authors express this theme differ significantly from each other and show two spectrums of love in literature. Through their use of syntax, diction, rhyme, and meter, these poets portray love in a unique and personal manner that illicit specific emotions from the reader for a variety of possible reasons, which will be analyzed in this essay.

I will consider the way in which the two poets deal with the idea of love as timeless.I will also explore themes of authenticity and identity in their poems about love. In addition I will consider the extent to which their gender may have affected their view of love.

Often times songs and poems leave readers and listeners wondering what in the world they could mean. More frequent than not, these art forms have deeper meaning through their use of figurative language, poetic terms and other artistic characteristics. Of such forms is Borns song, “Electric Love” and Jason Grant’s poem, “Love or is it Drugs”. These texts share a lot of common ground and of it; a common theme. This shared theme is that love has all the same effects on a person as drugs do.

The rest of the day was anticlimactic compared to lunch. I cooked steaks out on the grill and we had a quiet dinner on the patio.

She finally found the red door she was looking for and ran towards it. As soon as she went through it, she found herself in a narrow corridor. She kept running and entered the last door on the left. The suitcase she was carrying swung alongside her. The person chasing her sprinted as hard as she could, but couldn't reach her yet. After entering the door on the left, she found stairs and went up. The silver-haired pursuer realized the stairs went to the rooftop and the girl with the suitcase was there. Realizing she was cornered, since the other buildings were too far away to jump, she started the fight.

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you." - John Green

Ecstasy, I am in pure ecstasy just at the wild idea of opening the crinkly, smooth red wrapper of the kit kat bar. I feel imprudent at the thought of the crisp wafers and milky sweet chocolate on the tip of my tongue. I know that I should abandon temptation, not to put the sugary, divine goodness into my salivating mouth. But I yearn for just a taste, just a taste of the enticing treat, just a taste of delectable heaven resting on a cloud in my mouth. I give in, the first heart throbbing bite is too much to handle, for I am on a wild chocolatey milky way soaring through a galaxy of all exquisite processed ingredients in my kit kat. I lose all other thoughts, I am in pure euphoria, the crunch of the disintegrating wafer mixed in a sweet romance

Every passing hour made it feel as if time was slowing down. The host of me felt motionless when my eyes set on the watch on the wall. The clock ticked. Five past. Twenty past. Time was endless; it felt as though it was never going to end.

In order to describe the form which Donne gives to true love he chooses to create a scene of separation. He insists that when in love, absence is not a cause for despair. Stanza two describes the usual reaction lovers have to separation but explains that such reactions of tears and sighs do not prove one’s love but rather the

Contemporary literary theory has thoroughly debunked the traditional view of the artist as a divinely inspired, completely original and creative individual. This view has been replaced with the more apt view of the author as a product of his or her environment and the existing discourses of the society in which he or she lives. In this new attitude toward the writer as a product of society, the author is considered, according to Dr. James E. Porter, as somewhat of a quiltmaker who takes various traces of the existing cultural intertext (the collected writing and debate of a society) and combines them in new ways to create new discourse (34). Differences in these new discourses of various