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    Poetry Analysis (John Donne)

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    In this poem analysis, the document summarizes John Donne's poem "Song: Sweetest love, I do not go". The poem reassures the speaker's lover that their true love will endure despite their separation. It compares the speaker to the sun that leaves each night but returns, and says their love will spur him to overcome difficulties and reunite with their lover. It advises the lover not to fret about ill fate, but take comfort that their love means they can never truly be parted. The analysis concludes that through consoling their lover, the speaker proves that true love endures even through separation.

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    In this poem analysis, the document summarizes John Donne's poem "Song: Sweetest love, I do not go". The poem reassures the speaker's lover that their true love will endure despite their separation. It compares the speaker to the sun that leaves each night but returns, and says their love will spur him to overcome difficulties and reunite with their lover. It advises the lover not to fret about ill fate, but take comfort that their love means they can never truly be parted. The analysis concludes that through consoling their lover, the speaker proves that true love endures even through separation.

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    In this poem analysis, the document summarizes John Donne's poem "Song: Sweetest love, I do not go". The poem reassures the speaker's lover that their true love will endure despite their separation. It compares the speaker to the sun that leaves each night but returns, and says their love will spur him to overcome difficulties and reunite with their lover. It advises the lover not to fret about ill fate, but take comfort that their love means they can never truly be parted. The analysis concludes that through consoling their lover, the speaker proves that true love endures even through separation.

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    Poetry Analysis (John Donne)

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    In this poem analysis, the document summarizes John Donne's poem "Song: Sweetest love, I do not go". The poem reassures the speaker's lover that their true love will endure despite their separation. It compares the speaker to the sun that leaves each night but returns, and says their love will spur him to overcome difficulties and reunite with their lover. It advises the lover not to fret about ill fate, but take comfort that their love means they can never truly be parted. The analysis concludes that through consoling their lover, the speaker proves that true love endures even through separation.

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    Poetry Analysis

    Song: Sweetest love, I do not go by John Donne

    In Song: Sweetest Love, I do not go, John Donne portrays that true love is not

    hindered in separation, but endures and is strengthened.

    The poem begins with a reassurance to the speaker’s lover. He tells the person

    he addresses as his “sweetest love” to be at ease, since the reason for his departure is

    not that he is looking for someone new, neither it is because he is tired of them. He

    explains that the real reason he is leaving is that, since he will die some day, it is best,

    “To use myself in jest/ Thus by feign'd deaths to die.”(7-8) It seems that he has some

    great duty he must fulfill in which he must endanger his life constantly. Bottom line is, he

    needs to do something similar to death, either to fake it to save his life or risk it in some

    way or another, but he seems rather resigned to his fate when he says that he must do

    it since he will “die at last”(6). It is clear he doesn’t have much of a choice.

    In the next stanza, he keeps reassuring his lover by comparing himself to the

    sun. He explains that “Yesternight the sun went hence,/ And yet is here today”(9-10),

    encouraging his beloved to look at the sky and take note of the great distance the sun

    has ran in the course of a day. He furthers this comparison by adding that if, unlike

    himself, the sun has no motivation and his course is unspeakably long, he will be even

    faster, since he has his lover to go back to.

    The writer then continues by remarking another reason why he knows his lover

    should be reassured. He explains that man is such a captive to his fate,“That if good

    fortune fall,/ Cannot add another hour,/ Nor a lost hour recall!”(18-20), but that if we
    finds ourselves victims to bad luck, we dedicate our strength in order to get, “Itself o'er

    us to'advance.”(24) What he means is that once people find themselves in unpleasant

    circumstances they give themselves away completely to overcome them. It is a way to

    explain to his lover that the unpleasantness of his departure will only spur him on to find

    better circumstances, and therefore be reunited with them again.

    He continues his consolation by telling his lover how their sighs and weeps

    almost physically hurt him. In a playful manner, he tells them that they cannot possibly

    love him as they claim to say if indeed they continue to hurt him this way, by being sad

    over their separation.

    Lastly, he tells his desolate lover to be hopeful and not think of anyting bad that

    could happen to him. He tells them that if they fret over ill fate, “Destiny may take thy

    part,/ And may thy fears fulfill”(35-36). And finally that, that to replace this ugly, haunting

    thoughts, they must console themselves with the thought that they are not but

    momentarily separated, and that, “They who one another keep. Alive, ne'er parted

    be.”(39-40).

    In this poem the speaker, by consoling his lover, proves that love endures even

    through the hardships of separation.

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