1. Elegy 19: On His Mistress Going to Bed and Amores
... Bed", Donne reveals to the audience the experience of undressing his mistress before they unite in sexual ecstasy. However, as he is describing his experience, the audience is given no insight on the mistress' character or her life. Donne does, however, bluntly address her body as he takes the clothes off of her, but does so with a sense of command ... her. Ovid, too, shows self-display of emotions in Amores 1.7, after the speaker, having had laid a violent hand on his mistress says, "Then for the first time I began to realize her hurt/The tears I made her shed were my own blood" (lines...
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