WHO WAS JOHN DONNE?

"... any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."

21. January 1572 – 31 March 1631

John Donne was born in London. He was Poet, Priest,and a Lawyer. He got married to Anne More. Anne gave him 12 children in 16 years of marriage. After his third child his dad died and soon after his mother. His wife died on 15 August 1617, five days after giving birth to their twelfth child, a still-born baby. John Donne mourning his loss, wrote his 17Th holy sonnet about her. He never remarried; this was really unusual for his time, especially as he had such a large family to raise.

Early years

His work consisted many of satire ( to ridicule or be sarcastic and meant to be funny) with often involved politics or the law. He also wrote erotic poetry, such as is found in The Flea.

Later years

After experiencing much death around him his work turned to writings about death and were much more somber in tone. He died of stomach cancer and had a picture made of him in what he would look like when he rose from the dead.Then he died a few months later.

Poems

He was Influenced by William Shakespeare in his poetry. He was a Jacobean poet which is an era after Shakespeare. In his writing he wrote mainly about love, sex, religion, and death. In his time influenced a lot of people like W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas,and W. H. Auden . He was considered a metapyhsical poet. he was considered anti-romantic.