Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Satire III


    "Satire III"
     
    During the last weeks, we've been reading John Donne's poetry in my Literature class. There was a poem that caught my attention immediately because it made me think a lot about God, devil and religion in general, this poem is called "Satire III". This poem mainly talks about man and religion.
    It's interesting that in someway, Donne's poem makes me want to have a religion and do the "right thing" by following the word of God. Another interesting fact about "Satire III" is that he establishes that when human follow their temptations, they're not actually feeding their soul and that religion is the solution for everything they need.
    This is related to the fact that people actually have a religion because they feel more confident and less scared of real life. Therefore, I can conclude by saying that it is essential for humanity to have a religion because it is a guide that will make them feel less afraid of their future.
    What I learned about John Donne when I finished to read this poem is that he thought religion was the right thing for him and wanted to transmit that message to everyone else.
    He was a person that really, really liked metaphors and we can see one in the beginning of "Satire III", when he says "Death be not proud".
    My experience with "Satire III" is that at first, I didn't understand what he was talking about because his constant use of metaphor, so I had to read it again and again. Also I realized that for a lot of people, religion (how Donne describes it) is their answer and guide for everything, but not for me. 
     
     
     
     
     "I would rather live my life as if there's a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is." 
    -Albert Camus
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    Friday, March 7, 2014

    John Donne


    John Donne 
    In our English class we've been reading poetry lately. We've read a lot about John Donne's poems and I've discovered that his poetry is literally unique. There are not other words to describe it because when I first read "The Flea", I realized how intelligent he was for writing something with double meaning that at first sight looks really simple but when you read it again and again, you realize that its more than simple. 
    At first sight, when reading "The Flea", I thought that he was talking about a real flea, but once I started to analyze it, I realized the intellect of Donne's because he choose words that are not related to each other at all, but once you give them meaning, you realize that they have a lot in common and can be interpreted as something else. For example, in "The Flea", the "flea" represents marriage between a man and a women. 
     John Donne is famous for his wit, this means that his poems are full of multiple meanings because he uses a lot of words that have double meaning but because of the context of the other words, we can understand what he is talking about. 
    Undoubtedly he is different from other poets because in comparison with others, he uses a lot of "common words" in his poems that have a hidden meaning and other poems use a lot of "complex words" that can cause confusion towards the reader because sometimes we don't know what do they refer to. 
    My opinion about his poetry is that its universal in the way that he talks about a lot of themes such as love, war, religion, etc. I believe that he mainly used "common words" with different meanings because he thought that the importance of the message in his poems, depends on every person and their own interpretation.
     
    "Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you."
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