i was just reading something on donne, a little biographical history, when i realized where the fire of his poems come from. yeah, we all learned in class that he lost his wife while she was giving birth, and he loved her so incredibly much. but it seems that is not all that he lost so quickly during his lifetime. He lost his father when he was just 3 or 4, and lost several of his siblings early in his life also. he lost a lot of loved ones during his life.
that plus an education at the U of Oxford, AND the U of Cambridge produced a pretty darn good writer, who i as well as many others have had a really difficult time understanding. i see that as a good thing, its a challenge to read and actually has meaning beneath its puzzling, upscale english. one thing is for sure though, his poetry is definitely not flat and boring.
--Ricky Singh
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Today someone in my class asked how his parents felt about him leaving Catholicism. That kind of answers the question. He apparently didn't have much of a family by the time he renounced Catholicism. Plus, it makes sense that since Catholics weren't really tolerated at that time that he may want to switch. He was never really big Catholicism anyway.
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