... , imprison mee, for I Except you' enthrall mee, never shall be free, Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee. - John Donne "We do not come to Donne as we come to Shakespeare, whose space in history are in our blood and bones. Donne is surely not all we are and have been; he does not revive the memory of our whole selves ... " (Cathcart 1). In other word, John Donne's poetry is unfamiliar to the average reader. many people may understand the work of Shakespeare, for instance, only because it is frequently performed and studied. The study of Donne is different in terms of the ambiguity encoun...

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