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Article: Poems of John Donne: Sample Questions And Answers
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Donne, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Sample Questions And Answers
1. Compare Marvell's treatment of the macrocosm/microcosm figure with
Donne's, as seen in their short lyrics.
Answer: Marvell's On a Drop of Dew and Donne's A Valediction: Of Weeping
are typical of their authors and form an apt basis of comparison. In one a dew
drop, in the other a tear, is made metaphorically a world. Donne's tears,
catching his mistress' image as they fall, are thus made globes, even worlds,
until their tears jointly flood the very world they stand on, a flood which
represents the dissolution of his heaven (particularly, the watery firmament).
The whole conceit is carefully controlled, semi-playful, and ...