'The Broken Heart' by John Donne

Introduction

Love is a spontaneous emotional movement to be one that gives people the satisfaction which is important for anyone. This impassioned appeal may apply to a person, object or even an idea. Parents can love their child intensely, place, or demonstrations of courage that provides a special satisfaction to them. One can even feel love when there is still the hope of a satisfaction, a potential for happiness. Love is not an emotion in itself; it is a complex emotional experience that includes many emotions. This is perhaps the most complex of all the emotional experiences. There are often, for example, the joy, the attraction or desire, affection, esteem, attachment, etc. The experience of love also includes many cases of anger or resentment and a sense of vulnerability. What remains constant however, in the different experiences of love, its well-being or happiness gives people the beloved matter. Specifically, people consider "good for us" beings and realities that are worthy of the love. This is because they perceive them, more or less explicitly, as capable of meeting the needs. It states they already meet or are carrying a promise of satisfaction which remains subjectively a source of happiness. In this poem we will be analyzing the poem 'The broken Heart' by John Donne. In this poem he has shown negativity in his mind regarding love as he says it destroys human being.

Main Body

The poem of John Donne 'The Broken Heart' gives a simple idea of destruction of heart by love and transformation of it into number of imagery and metaphor. Each stanza defines love from various angles. In first stanza it has been compared with plague. Second stanza furthermore describes it as monster which is the reason of human being destruction. The specific idea is provided In third paragraph as Donne addresses his lover and recalls the moment when love personally destroyed his heart. The last stanza serves as a moral for the poem; after heartbreak the heart remains intact, somewhat like the shattered remains of a broken mirror, able to reflect emotions such as warmth and affection, but no longer love.

We read Donne, however, to little purpose if we do not perceive that he was, above all things, sincere. His writings, like his actions, were faulty, violent, a little morbid even, and abnormal. He was not, and did not attempt to be, an average man. But actions and writings alike, in their strangeness, their aloofness, were unadulterated by a tinge of affectation. Donne was Elizabethan in his absolute straightforwardness of character; it was left to his Caroline disciples to introduce into a mode of expression founded upon his a trick of pastiche, an alloy of literary pretence. Donne, in turbid and violent language for, with all his genius, he lacked the last ornament of a perfect style, lucidity expressed what he himself perceived, suffered, and desired. If, therefore, we can but comprehend what Donne is saying, and realise what his character is, if we ...