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Compare / Contrast Love in John Donne and Jane Austen

Introduction

Several stories and poems have been written in the past that still make the reader lost in the amazing work done by writers and poets. Similar work has been done by two great people in the context of love that was displayed in almost all of their work. John Donne and Jane Austen were poet and writer respectively, who contributed to the world of literature tremendously and performed very well. They have been famous for their exceptional work. In this essay, we will be analyzing and comparing their work that has made a major contribution in the field of literature.

Thesis Statement

To understand and compare and contrast the work done by John Donne and Jane Austen that made them successful.

Discussion

John Donne

John Donne was born in London in 1572, and he was educated by his mother Elizabeth, daughter of playwright J. From 1584, he studied at Oxford. He attended the school office of Lincoln's Inn for three years.

Donne's poetry is characterized by the irregular shape and complex imagery. It often used the concept of an elaborate metaphor that was synthesized by two seemingly unrelated objects or ideas. His intelligent insight and the use of colloquial language acquired a hitherto unknown accuracy. His poetry left smooth and elegant style that grew his contemporaries Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. The contents of his love poetry, sensual and cynical at the same time, represent a reaction to the Elizabethan sonnet, overly sentimental (Kermode 1968: 22).

The work of Donne is notable for its realistic style and includes many poems, songs and satirical verses, the vibrant language and immediacy of his metaphors apart from its predecessors and most of his contemporaries. One of the first of the dramatic ironies that punctuated the career of Donne interrupted his tremendous progress. For now the young poet who had cut such a dashing figure as a careless cynic in matters of love threw away his burgeoning career for love, when he not only won the niece of Lady Egerton, Ann More, but eloped with her in December 1601. Her father, in the heaviest tradition of the father, not only had Donne imprisoned for a time, but also insisted that Egerton discharge his secretary; he did nothing to help the young couple. Years of privation and hardship followed for Donne and his growing family, in an exile from the great world enforced by poverty. Donne was quite literally in a desperate situation with all his consciousness of great powers doomed to rust unused. It says much for his charm that he found patrons and patronesses to help him in these dark days, and much, too, for the depth of his affection for his wife that it survived these frustrations. Some of his loveliest verses are usually thought to have been addressed to her (White 2003: 867).

The death of his wife in 1617 seems to have wearied him with worldly ambition, and helped him to focus all ...