Originally posted by User
With references to Valediction, Batter my Heart and Hymn to God my God in my Sicknesse
FEMINIST
"Donne is such an arrogant prick. Look at him in "A Valediction: forbidding mourning". He tells his mistress or whatever to stay behind while he roams the world and has fun. "And though it in the centre sit, while the other far doth rome." And he expects that she will "lean and hearken" after him. Seriously, if I were her mistress, I'd divorce him immeaditly. You gotta treat women as equals. I mean god knows what he's doing while he's globetrotting. What else? He believes that he and his lover are the only people who know true love in this world? "Dull sublunary lovers love, whose soule is sense, cannot admit absence, because it doth remove those thigns which elemented it." WTF? YOU ARROGANT BASTASRD, are you saying that you and your mistress are the only ones who know the real meaning of love, and that everyone else in the world are whores? <bitch slaps Donne in the face>"
RELIGIOUS:
"Gee I wonder what Donne did to ask God to "ravish" him in Batter by Heart. You know, God is forgiving, and the first path to having God forgive you is to "turne your face againe" (Hymn to God, my god in my sicknesse). All you gotta do is ask for forgiveness, you don't have to ask God to "breake, blowe, burne and make me new, " even if you are "betrothed to your enemie" I mean, you obviously still believe in God because you "labour to admit you [God]"
Moderne:
"Dude this guy is pretty f*cked up in the head. He asks god to f*ck him, and he's got an obsession about spheres. And I don't understand all that crap about west and east and calvarie and "Japhet...Cham or Sem", I mean whose "purple wrapped" are you asking God to recieve you in? Maybe there's some kinda hidden meaning in these poems, but for now, f*k it, I don't have time for this s*it.
Thx, a very nice and easy 2 understand interpetation!
Thx again every1