“Donne’s approach to love is often surprising and bizarre.”

Sounds like butt stuff desu

>>9214314
Well? The conceits are bizarre by intent, while the notion of love in him, over time, becomes more and more generalized. As well as his notion of death: do not ask for whom the bell tolls, is a classic instance: It tolls for thee. Recognized or not, we're all saturated in love and death, and this is a problem. Like the Earl of Rochester he began as a rake, but unlike the Earl he lived it out and became a divine. The poetry and the sermons are alike fantastic.

>>9214314
Dude was writing erotic lesbian fan fiction about the poet Sappho long before it was considered socially acceptable to address the fact she was gay (rumours abound that her more erotic works were purged in ritualistic book burnings of the 12th century).

Also he had a weird erotic fascination with the epiphanic moment of being touched by God, usually figured through images of rape and pillaging. Pretty edgy imo but his love poetry is a thing of beauty