John Donne, Love Sonnets

I found the love sonnets to be more interesting than the holy sonnets, mostly because some of the sexual innuendos were slightly comical. He comes across as a hopeless Romantic longing for love. For example in the sonnet title " Song", he says, " O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall!" ( pg. 1269). Donne speaks of his longing for more time with his love. In the beginning of this sonnet he also says that he does not want to go for "weariness of thee". In " Air and Angels", he compares the woman who is his love to be the angel, and himself to be the air. The air being slightly less pure than the angel.