Broken Heart Poem by John Donne

The downcast emotional state is a retire verse . In this metrical composition magic trick Donne has a stony-broken stock ticker and he embodies his suffering in a confused dramatic ways. As he wpismires to level us that the grief in slam is much more than any other(a) kinds of griefs in spiritedness. In the title of the poem John Donne depicts his heart as somethig poppycock such as a broken mirror or ice. So he pointes out that when someones heart is broken , it makes his life miserable and earth-closet not be able to impress in cheat any more.He also describes how his be get alongd tattered his heart into a million of pecies. first of all the broken heart poem is consists of 4 stanzas in ab ab cc dd rhyme. the title of the poem revealed to what extent adore kills our soul. The poet takes to his audition and readers as he begins his poem with a strong statement that anyone who disagrees with his cable about hunch forward is (stark mad) indicating that we may extraction in dearest quickly still we can not recover from it easily. He adding that he himself suffered from love.When John says (I have had the plague) he do not mean the diseases itself solely he means the suffering in love and the effects of broken heart is similar to the plague. Even the one who fall in love for just t an hour,would suffers (decays). He also uses (a flash of pulverisation) to declear the tan of love. In the second stanza John personificates love in cruel physical bodyry as adestroyer,killer or nutty fish. Moreover he compares the griefs and suffering in love with other kinds of griefs. rom his point of view regular(a) other griefs are not egotistic as the grief in love moreover other griefs and sadness postdate to by nature unless we go to love by our own get out , Johne Donne personificates love by calling it (he) and he also embodies it as agun or round shot which may kill a full-length town or army of soldiers by one shot( by chaind shot , wh olly ranks do die) or as wild fish who swallows smaller fish without ant mercy(a tyrant pike) consequently the loudspeaker showed that love has no mercy. In the third stanza the speaker talkes about his belovedthe woman who broke his heart.He depicts his miserable love story as he walking into aroom carring his heart and on the spur of the moment he sees his beloved ,offering his heart for her but what a disappointment She refuses his love, breaking his heart by her rejection. John embodies his heart equal a mirror or glass which broke into a lot of shrill pieces. we now deduce that his love is a one- sided love. In the final stanza he tells his audience the negative effect of love on his heart which makes him enable to live his traffic pattern live again. His hearts wound never gone, withal keeping it in his breast.He may echo the pieces of his heart but his heart willing never be fixed again( those pieces still,though they not be unite). He concludes his poem by saying that his broken heart can like,wish and admire but he never fall in love again. The expression of the poem is sad and melancholy. In this poem John uses avarious of imagery such as a visual images as in (I saw /a flash of powder/draws/pieces/ abroken glasses/a hundred lesser faces), auditory images as in(says /swear/ gag ),gustatory images as in (swallows/chaws). He uses initial rhyme such as (says /decays ) (say /day) (show / go through).We all know that one of John Donne s lumber in poet his hyperbole as he exaggerates in his feelings and this is declear in his title (broken heart)and his definition for his suffering (broken glasses / hundred lesser faces),he also depicts love in the image of destructive tool (the chaind shot,whole ranks do die) or in awild fish (tyrant pike). As wellhead he uses figure of speech metaphore as in (broken heart /trifle is a heart /plague/flash of powder/the tyrant pike) and simile as in (by him as by chaind shot). To sum up we could deduce some of 17th coulomb love features and to what extent they hyperbole in their feelings .