Donne
Seventeenth-century English cleric
Donne is an English surname, most famously borne by the poet John Donne (1572–1631), whose metaphysical verse explored love, death, and devotion: No man is an island and Death, be not proud are among his most quoted lines.
The name occasionally appears as a given name.
Exaggerated self-admiration
- paradoxSeemingly absurd truth
- witClever, inventive humor
- alchemyMystical metal transformation
- compassDevice showing cardinal directions
spheres · microcosm · macrocosm · scholasticism · argument · dialectic · syllogism · learning
Fourteen-line metered poem
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- verseMetered poetic passage
- satireMockery exposing vice
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
couplet · meter · rhyme · imagery · speaker · apostrophe · enjambment · dramatic
Cessation of life
- graveSerious and worrying
- shroudBurial cloth or covering
- funeralService honoring the dead
- skullHead's bone casing
worms · decay · dust · judgment · damnation · resurrection · sickness · fever
Clergy's worship address
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
- prayerAddress to deity
- holyDedicated to the divine
- meditationFocused attention practice
divine · soul · salvation · resurrection · repentance · grace · sin · devotion
conceit
Exaggerated self-admiration
compass · spheres · microcosm · macrocosm · scholasticism · argument · dialectic · syllogism · learning · philosophy
sonnet
Fourteen-line metered poem
stanza · couplet · meter · rhyme · imagery · speaker · apostrophe · enjambment · dramatic · monologue
passion
Intense emotional drive
lover · flea · compass · parting · absence · union · souls · bodies · constancy · inconstancy
death
Cessation of life
skull · worms · decay · dust · judgment · damnation · resurrection · sickness · fever · tolling
sermon
Clergy's worship address
meditation · divine · soul · salvation · resurrection · repentance · grace · sin · devotion · Anglican
DonneWilliam Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley · Romantic poetry · John Keats · Lord Byron · William Blake
- don't worryReassurance against anxiety
- don't moveCommand to remain stationary
- don't give upEncouragement to continue despite difficulty
- don't botherDismissal of unnecessary effort
- don't careLacking interest or preference
- don't touchProhibition against contact
don, donee, donor, donation, donate, donator, condone, pardon