To the speaker of this sonnet, life is merely a journey towards the inevitable end, which is death. In just fourteen lines, the speaker is able to debate a difficult issue, reach a conclusion, and pour much more meaning into his words than what it seems. Because of the speaker¡¯s choice of spe...

"Metaphysical" love poetry such as John Donne's "The Sun Rising" has certain characteristics and features. The frequent use of colloquial speech stresses the occasional quality of the poems in the sense that they often seem to rise out of a specific occasion, and in some cases, they even seem t...