1. John Donne - Woman's Constancy
... , "Woman's Constancy" is written as himself speaking to his lover. "Woman's Constancy" seems at first to be an argument put to a lover by Donne near the end of a brief affair, suggesting that the next morning, when pressed about further meetings, the lover will "antedate some new made vow" or claim that overnight they had both moved on; "we are not just those persons, which ... one level his poems may seem sexist (indeed arrogant), there is also self-mockery running throughout the poem, as well as a faintly sarcastic irony, "Now thou hast lov"d me one whole day", as if even a day is some...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate