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Comment 5 of 5, added on June 13th, 2008 at 7:38 PM.
on ground of sensational words and images of which Donne makes use, one cannot draw the conclusion that he is talking about being faithful to one`s partner. he is disapproving of social and moral boundaries and taking side with one night stand loves!!! the reason is that he is not converted to christianity yet.
Anahit Kazzazi from Iran
Comment 4 of 5, added on June 17th, 2006 at 1:22 PM.
John Donne is the speaker in his poem “The Indifferent”. I think Donne is addressing his poem, and his argument in it, to the Goddess of love, Venus. In the first two stanzas, Donne is saying that he loves women and he loves them without prejudice – those who are “fair and brown”, those who love wealth, those that are poor, those who live in city and those who live in country etc. However, because he can love all kinds of women this means that he doesn’t expect to be true in love to one woman, nor does he expect that women will be true to him. The central purpose of this poem is that Donne, probably tongue in cheek was trying to persuade Venus to allow a new kind of loving relationship between men and women. Actually Donne is arguing for “free love” – a kind of love in which there are no obligations, either emotionally or otherwise.
In the last stanza, when the Goddess of love hears Donne’s whining pleas, - “Venus heard me sigh this song” line 19, she responds by calling men like him “poor heretics in love”. She rejects Donne’s requests and commands that he, and men like him to be true in their love of women even though those women maybe false to their men.
Rinda Suparatana from Canada
Comment 3 of 5, added on March 30th, 2006 at 11:09 PM.
Great poem? Yeah, of coarse it is but it's John Donne and he is very hard. He eventually became a religious orator, but this is his early work, which included many poems about love, or rather, lust. When he says that "I can love any, so she be not true" it doesn't necessarily mean that that he can love her as long as she is not faithful, but that he can only love her if she understands that their relationship is superficial. It is for the lust, and not truly love. How well does this apply today? The world is becoming preoccupied with the perfected human body as the center to desire and sex. Relationships are more superficial than ever. It seems that Donne was way ahead of his time.
Lee
Comment 2 of 5, added on March 8th, 2005 at 10:08 AM.
Well, this really isn't about being true to yourself. The speaker is saying that he can love any woman as long as she is not faithful. He says that there is nobody in the world who is faithful. Venus, the goddess of love, hears his words, and decides to see for herself. She comes back saying that there are only a few left in the world who are "heretics" - that stay loyal to love. So she says that she has told them that they are doomed to love only those who will not be faithful to them.
Karen from United States
Comment 1 of 5, added on January 6th, 2005 at 4:38 PM.
This is a great poem.. i wish there were more poems that talk about being true to yourself!!!!!!!
Alyak from United States
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on ground of sensational words and images of which Donne makes use, one cannot draw the conclusion that he is talking about being faithful to one`s partner. he is disapproving of social and moral boundaries and taking side with one night stand loves!!! the reason is that he is not converted to christianity yet.
Anahit Kazzazi from Iran