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Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before?

I looooove this piece of Donne metaphysical poetry. It symbolizes the length at which Donne will go to to be accepted into heaven and not left in limbo. He will ask for forgiveness from an act that even the most devout catholic wouldn't even take responsibility for as a sin. He has his sin, who was a sin in itself, recognized future sin, but asks yet for forgiveness from God almighty.

Where the remote Bermudas ride In th' Ocean's bosom unespied From a small boat, that rowed along, The listening Winds received this song.

Andrew Marvell

Lady Mary Wroth

I very much enjoy Mady Mary Wroth's work... I find her subversion of typical styles of poetry very intriguing to read with during long pieces of writing. I find subverting classical tendencies of narration a true pure source of entertainment. The point of view puts the reader in the shows of the conquered, the suppressed, the underdog and the lesser, consistently in her writing.

The Glowworms!!!!!!!!

Marvell's "The Mower to the Glowworms" is one of my favorite pieces I've read from this anthology. Solely because of the visual it paints in my head. I can imagine the field of glow worms on the field lighting the night up and a man standing there mesmerized by the sight. A creature so minute in size, but symbolic and with an impact in a human life when combines with thousands, and thousands of other glowworms. The light which the worms provide symbolize growing love for the significant other. The speaker, who is as much enchanted by the worms as he is by the love he posses for his other.

#19 AB: The Prologue

Anne Bradstreet's The Prologue is a highly intellectual piece. Anne speaks upon a vast array of nationalities with historical and geographical context. The poet's ability to control verse is on full display in this piece, and is a bold assertion into her life and skill.

I guess one could says she's pretty hipster. After all, she did come up with feminism before it was cool... and before people in the Plateau caught on... She didn't found the idea or the movement per say, but she certainly believed in the same foundations of the political movement.

#18 JD: The Good Morrow

- As we can see from the timeline of this poem, the dude just scored. ITs the morning after, and the speaker is conversing with himself about how far he's come. Donne refers to this poem as a sonnet, but I don't see it to be a whole lot like a sonnet. When I think about a sonnet to do with intercourse, I think "It feels like the fiiiiirst timeeee" But I don't know, that's just me. The poem strays from the naughty bits and ends up just touching upon John Donne's specialty, the metaphysical realm, touching upon hidden conceit and messages between bits of the speaker mentioning his good fortune.

#17: Rebuttal to my hate on Francis Bacon

If I'm going to post a journal entry saying I dislike Francis Bacon's work, I better make one post about something I admire about it so that his ghost doesn't visit me tonight.

Bacon is truly exemplary of rhetoric and short and hammering sentences in his essays. His essays are often crowded in metaphors and conceits but manages to transfer a hidden theme to the reader in a hidden manner. His prose style was suitably fitted for themes like truth, the love humans share, and marriage and the single life. In a sense, sure, his prose writing could be interesting to some readers. Totally not for me however.

How much I hate Reading Francis Bacon

There's something about Bacon's writing that I despise. He puts it in a much more confusing way for the reader that it literally makes it IMPOSSIBLE for me to pick up on themes... Forget about writing an essay on his work, ill leave that for the A students. Not even kidding ill spend ten minutes reading a single page and have to re-read it because I simply don't compute a single word. I guess it relates back to his writings being earlier and pre industrial type of scripture.

#14 JD: A Quick Thought on Donne

The reason why I like John Donne so much is because he is indeed the founder of metaphysical poetry. The was he speaks and relates inanimate objects to emotions as strong as love is intriguing as a reader. He personifies objects like a compass and the sun and gives them evidently humanistic traits. It is interesting as a reader and challenges me to uncover the true hidden messages behind the physical realm which it lay.

#13 AC: To Mr. Hobbes "But all bodies are dead," (Cowley)

Abraham Cowley speaks in a different tone about his peers in this piece. Talks about never seeing the writers, but only seeing their work.

Cowley speaks as though they do not live, because they are dead. And they only live through their writing. They live "But in books..." (Cowley 775)

#12 WW: A Thought

Walwyn seems like a pretty cool guy. He's a man of principle. He seems like a liberal thrown back a few centuries. He's against anyone calling for violence against others, against senseless killing. William Walwyn seems like an intense preacher dude as he talks about judgement day and the response we ought to have when dealing with murderers.

#11 LMW: Behold I yield: let forces be dismissed;/ I am thy subject, conquered, bound to stand.

Lady Mary Wroth

Lady Mary Worth, who's poetry inverses the norms viewed in poetry for her time, and takes the position of the conquered people. Gender plays a role in this genre of writing, as women were the suppressed people in Worth's era. this is a typical example of marginal imagery in the case of Wroth's writings. She establishes herself among the conquered to altar the view of the reader when reading her work.

#10 JD: The Flea

- As is in all of Donne's metaphysical realm, the use of imagery is plentiful. This poem revolves around a certain set of images that can be described as odd and obscure.

- "...three sins in killing three." (Donne) This portion symbolizes that killing the flea, as minute as it is, would be killing all three people involved in this story; the speaker (assumed to be Donne), the lover, and the life of the flea.

- It's almost as if Donne, who I assume to be the speaker, is attempted to tempt the lover into intercourse, thus saving the flea's life.

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#9 GH: The Altar

Let me just get this out of the way really quick; the poem is shaped like an altar.

Good now that we covered that, we can move on. The poem is somewhat dedicated to God and man's relationship with God, as is much of Herbert's writings. Herbert in a selfless act dedicates the accomplishment of the writing to God, hence the altar shape of the poem, the most symbolic element in Christianity. Another theme that is carried out through the poem, is love and more specifically, the speaker's heart. It is mentioned heavily in the center of the poem, the center of the altar. the altar, which is mainly used in ceremony and the focal point during ceremonial readings at church, grabs the attention of the reader throughout the poem.

#8 Sir RF: Patriarcha

Filmer speaks here about political aspects of society, noting the importance of patriarchy. He compares and contrasts monarchy and patriarchy and even mentions it as if it is the same aspect of civilization. Filmer also uses the grand old story of Adam and Eve in a way that communicated to the reader how important patriarchy is and uses this specific story to draw historical context. the comparison was mostly between Adam ad patriarchy, as Adam had the power of creation in the old fable.

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#7 BJ: On My First Son

Jonson who's first daughter dies also loses a son. Jonson mentions his fate and his sons fate with mention to his sin, being the conception of his son. He calls into question whether he is fit to be a father, after the passing of his second offspring. '...lament the state he should envy' (Jonson 147) in conversation about losing all father. He speaks of his son being lent to him, as he insinuates that he was never truly his, as was his daughter.

#6 BJ: On My First Daughter

Clearly Jonson had rotten luck with regards to the health of his offspring, as he lost two at an early age. In his first dedication to his daughter, he insinuates that even the Virgin Mary (referred to here as the mother of heaven) cries herself at the death of the pure toddler. Jonson mentions the 'safety of her innocence' (Jonson 147) as it will guide her to heaven, obviously being a virgin at 6 months.

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