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John Donne
Literary production
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In his love poems, there’s a hidden eroticism
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Life
- 1572, London
- frequents Oxford and Cambridge without taking a degree but decided to study law
- 1593 —> becomes Protestant + wrote love poems and satires
- 1596 —> after being in a naval expedition against Spain, he became a politician
- 1601 —> secretly married Anne Moore ( 17 y/o) + dismissed from his political position because of this
|_ struggled to make a living as a lawyer
|_ started writing sermons
- 1631 —> died after writing his own sermon
The sun rising
The sun, rising everyday, represents the world of structured time
It’s ok for ordinary people, not for lovers
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But without the sun, lovers wouldn’t be able to see each other
Despite lover’s world is superior, it needs the sun of the ordinary world