Poetry

Question 1

Poems by Donne

Answer 1

“A Fever”

“A Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness”

Question 2

Poems by Shakespeare

Answer 2

Sonnet 147

Question 3

Summary of Sonnet 147

Answer 3

Compares his love to a fever; he is struggling with her infidelity while also maintaining his desire for her; believes she seems bright but is actually like hell

Question 4

Summary of “A Fever”

Answer 4

Donne is comforting a lover as she suffers from a fever; he states that she is the world and her death would draw all life away from the world, leaving it a corpse; her fever is akin to his desire

Question 5

Summary of “A Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness”

Answer 5

Donne is succumbing to illness without fear; death and life are cyclical and he ponders if he will be reborn in the Eastern light (heaven); he describes himself as a map