John Donne Poetry

his poem to his wife just before he went travelling. He then asks her (his wife) to:
             "Thy firmness drawes my circle just,
             And makes me end, where I begunne"
             The "firmness" is referring to the physical stiffness of the leg of the compass, this being the moral strength he is urging on her throughout the poem. "drawes my circle just," is saying that it makes a complete journey and gives point and direction to it. The final line "makes me end, where I begunne" is logically where the compass analogy breaks down. The Lady is now the thought of both the point on the circumference of the circle where he began and where he returns and the centre, the point in which he revolves around. This could show the pressure of feeling within the poem instead of being just a mistake. This not only shows the intellect of the poem but also shows the imagery of his topics and the way he explains something by likening it into something else, a paradox. It is a carefully constructed argument again typical of John Donne.
             The second poem I am going to analyse The Good Morrow. Even though John Donne was a man of the cloth had a religious man, he still had temptations and encounters with women. This poem has details
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