Donne question 1 prositions 23.03.18

Question 1

Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star)

Answer 1

• The first person narrator laments what is asserted as if it were fact that it is impossible o find a faithful woman no matter how far one travels.

Question 2

The Canonisation

Answer 2

• Donne uses language and imagery to establish a complex argument where the narrator’s angry attitude to those who criticise his love develops into an extravagant claim that their love is a perfect standard for all future lovers.
• Donne’s ‘The Canonisation’ uses a first person perspective to communicate a sense of conflict between the private world of romantic love and the perceived imposition of a wider society.

Question 3

The Flea

Answer 3

• Donne’s narrator presents an argument in favour of sexual license against his lady’s rejection of his sexual advances.

Question 4

Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Answer 4

• Donne uses ‘Valediction…’ to create an intensely romantic poem suggesting lovers can transcend the misery that might be felt upon separation because of he power of their love.
• One of Donne’s most romantic meditations upon spiritual love is the poem ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’

Question 5

Death Be Not Proud

Answer 5

• Donne creates a bold satirical attack upon a subject that human beings have traditionally treated with reverence and trepidation.

Question 6

Batter My Heart

Answer 6

• Donne’s narrator imagines himself to be a battleground between the Devil and God. For God to win, the narrator commands God to fight violently for possession of his body and soul.