Donne

I have to say Donne turned out to be one of the poets I liked better. Although he can be a bit simple and too "sing-song", his poems are a nice breather after some of the more complicated authos we have been reading. Donne often has what I call the "awwww" factor. Some of his works can be very romantic so that after you read a particular line it makes the reader go "awwww". I also foudn Donneto be more genuine than the other poets, especially Shakespeare who sometimes I am not sure if he is mocking what he is writing about or not. I also found his fascination with souls both endearing and entertaining. He can go in one of his poems, for example "The Ecstasy", from talking about soul mates and how him and the women he is writing about are the only ones for each other, to souls combining or what I guess you would call "soul sex" to finally in the second to last stanza to finally lets have sex physically. I guess I find this amusing because slowly to find out where Donnes mind has really been all along. Even though some of Donne's poems can get a little raunchy they are still fun to read because it reminds me that people in the 16th century were amused just as much as we are by these types of poems.