Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

JOHN DONNE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Asks God to be more forceful with him in order to reform and regenerate him
        
        Evangelical idea that you need to be destroyed to be born again
      - Mixes a spiritual meaning with the physicality of the poem
      - Theological complexity through a tortured, direct, colloquial tone
  - - - The poet asks his interlocutor to complete impossible tasks, like finding a woman who is both beautiful and true
      - Dramatic quality
      - Beginning in medias res
      - Use of paradox
      - Use of conceits
    - - Asks the sun to leave him and his lover alone or as an alternative to lie in bed with them, since he couldn't find anyone better than his lady
      - Different tones used for the sun and the woman
        
        Woman - sensual, content, proud, admiring tone
        
        Sun - angry, insulting, scornful tone
      - Use of complex imagery, often from the the semantic area of geography