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* AuthorTract: His later poems are like this as he began to worry about death. Then again, most poetry is this anyway.
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* InsufferableGenius: He was brilliant and he knew it.
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* BadassBeard: Have you seen it?
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John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English
He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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* BackFromTheDead: The poem "Death, be not proud", which functions as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the embodiment of death itself, ends with this.
--> One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
--> And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
--> One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
--> And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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* MyGirlIsASlut: Many of his poems and essays are about how wonderful women are who sleep around. Seeing as how this is John Donne, (see UnreliableNarrator) it's difficult to tell whether he was being serious or sarcastic. Throughout history, people have argued both ways.
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* MyGirlIsASlut: Many of his poems and essays are about how wonderful women are who sleep around. Seeing as how this is John Donne, (see UnreliableNarrator) an UnreliableNarrator by nature, it's difficult to tell whether he was being serious or sarcastic. Throughout history, people have argued both ways.ways.
* SeductionLyric: Donne clearly enjoyed getting explicitly seductive in his poems. For example, "To His Mistress Going to Bed" is evidently set after seduction has been largely accomplished (''Licence my roving hands, and let them go, Before, behind, between, above, below...''), but "The Flea" is a sneaky seduction poem that suggests that the poet isn't asking for anything more dishonourable than a flea-bite.
* SeductionLyric: Donne clearly enjoyed getting explicitly seductive in his poems. For example, "To His Mistress Going to Bed" is evidently set after seduction has been largely accomplished (''Licence my roving hands, and let them go, Before, behind, between, above, below...''), but "The Flea" is a sneaky seduction poem that suggests that the poet isn't asking for anything more dishonourable than a flea-bite.
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John Donne (1573-1631) was an English poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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John Donne (1573-1631) (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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* BlasphemousBoast: his dismissal of the sun, and the entire natural order, as being insignificant in comparison to the microcosm of two lovers.
* InsufferableGenius: he was brilliant and he knew it.
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* BlasphemousBoast: his His dismissal of the sun, and the entire natural order, as being insignificant in comparison to the microcosm of two lovers.
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John Donne was a sixteenth and seventeenth century poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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John Donne (1573-1631) was a sixteenth and seventeenth century an English poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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* BlasphemousBoast: his dismissal of the sun, and the entire natural order, as being insignificant in comparison to the microcosm of two lovers.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: A big believer in it, specifically of sickness reflecting a person's inner sin. His famous phrases, "No man is an island" and "For whom the bell tolls" (both from the same work, "Meditation XVII"), were all about this.
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John Donne was a sixteenth and seventeenth century poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the ErnestHemingway Creator/ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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->If yet I have not all thy love.\\
Dear, I shall never have thee all;
Dear, I shall never have thee all;
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Dear, I shall never have thee
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->If yet I have not all thy love.\\
Dear, I shall never have thee all;
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John Donne was a sixteenth and seventeenth century poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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!!Tropes associated with John Donne:
* AuthorTract: His later poems are like this as he began to worry about death. Then again, most poetry is this anyway.
* BadassBeard: Have you seen it?
* MyGirlIsASlut: Many of his poems and essays are about how wonderful women are who sleep around. Seeing as how this is John Donne, (see UnreliableNarrator) it's difficult to tell whether he was being serious or sarcastic. Throughout history, people have argued both ways.
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Dear, I shall never have thee all;
-->-- "Lover's Infiniteness"
John Donne was a sixteenth and seventeenth century poet, in the metaphysical school of poetry. He's known for his extremely witty (and sometimes, very sexual) poetry. He was a Catholic when it was out of style. He inspired poets like Creator/TSEliot, and also the title of the ErnestHemingway novel ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls''.
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!!Tropes associated with John Donne:
* AuthorTract: His later poems are like this as he began to worry about death. Then again, most poetry is this anyway.
* BadassBeard: Have you seen it?
* MyGirlIsASlut: Many of his poems and essays are about how wonderful women are who sleep around. Seeing as how this is John Donne, (see UnreliableNarrator) it's difficult to tell whether he was being serious or sarcastic. Throughout history, people have argued both ways.
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