John Donne
John Donne (/ˈdʌn/ DUN) (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.
John Donne (disambiguation)
John Donne was a poet.
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'John donne' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
No Man Is an Island (1953)
Actors: Horace Braham (actor), Scott Forbes (actor), Geoffrey Lumb (actor), Hal H. Thompson (actor), Naomi Campbell (actress), Mary Scott (actress), Helene Hanff (writer),
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2012, role: actor
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1972, role: writer
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Famous quotes by John Donne:
John Donne
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- Favourite Poetry released: 2007
- We Will Not Give Up released: 2003
- Love Poems Of John Donne released: 1958
Favourite Poetry
Released 2007- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Upon Westminster Bridge
- Daffodils
- Sonnet No.2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
- Sonnet No.18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day?
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Corinna's Going A-Upon Maying
- Sonnet No.33: Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen
- Sonnet No.73: That Time of Year You Mayst in Me Behold
- The Apparition
- The Sunne Rising
- Hymne to God: My God in My Sicknesse
- To Jane: The Invitaion
- My True Love Hath My Heart
- Death Be Not Proud
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Love Poems Of John Donne
Released 1958- The Good Morrow
- Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star
- The Rising Sun
- The Canonization
- The Triple Fool
- Song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go
- The Legacie
- A Feaver
- The Anniversary
- The Flea
- The Curse
- A Nocturnall
- The Apparition
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- The Extasie
- The Funerall
- The Relique
- Elegy I: Jealosie
- Elegy VIII: The Comparison
- Elegy VII: Natures Lay Ideot
Died: 1631-03-31
Before Your Eyes
Yesterday you thought the flame has flickered again
A feeling from the past you’d recognize
But maybe tomorrow morning I won’t be there
Cos if you’re looking for the answer, then it’s
Right before your eyes
Look into the mirror, who is it you see?
The face of someone now as cold as ice
The anger in your mind turns now toward regret
If you’re looking for the answer
Then it’s right before your eyes
When your bed is empty
And you’re thinking of me
Your mind will dwell on all your sacrifice
For surely tomorrow morning, I won’t be there
And if you’re looking for the answer, then it’s
