plog 2-forbbiding mourning

in john donne's forbidding mounring, he usues circular imagery as a symbol for the love and bond between these two people. through the use of rhyme and circular images and language he creates an empathetic and sentimental tone along with other lit techniques such as emjambent and the overall structure of the poem which helps to show the soothing and somber mood of the poem.
the use of circular images in stanzas 3 and 9 are literal and specifi refernces to circles as doone uses the words 'sphere' and 'circle' to show the imagery of a circle. in stanzas 6, 8, and again 9. in stanza 6 the speaker talks about two souls that are one which creates an image of commitment, which could be seen as a circle since the two are together and there's nothing seperating them like how a circle has no beginning or end. in stanza 8 he talks about a pivoting foot where you would go around and be back where you started which is also an image of a circle. in stanza 9 along with the literal image of a circle he also creates the image of a circle in the last line where he says " and makes me end, where i begun" this creates the effect of a circle because he is going around from the beginning and enging at the beginning. with the use of the circular images he creates the image of strong, unbreakable bond between the two.
the rhyming through out the poem also creates a soothing effect that goes along with the overall mood of the poem. he uses end rhyme along with some internal rhyme to achieve this. the structure of the line indentures and the emjambents also help to emphasis and control the flow of the poem.

plog 1

the diction of this poem is very old style and a little confusing at first as the reader may not be used to such an old style of writing. the use of thee and thine and morrow and t'was, etc. make the poem have a very old world feel that we don't have in poetry now. it makes it seem a lot older, mainly because it is. it was difficult at first read of the first stanza because of this and because of the use of commas and questions. the way the lines are broken up make it hard to read through but once you get the rhytm of the poem down it goes by smoother and not as choppy. Also the geographical diction used to describe the lovers. It starts in the second stanza where Donne talks about the sea-discoveres finding new worlds and the maps deal. he continues in the third stanza with the geographical references about the hemispheres and north and west. it puts the two lovers love into a better context than just they love eachother a lot. when he talks about possesing a world, worlds are rather large and this means that their love for eachother is also rather large. hemishperes are also very large, he's saying they are two halves of a whole and together they make the world.