differences between Shakespeare and Donnes poetry
Shakespeare’s sonnet number 116 and John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” can be compared and contrasted in many different ways. ... There are also many differences in which explain how the author used the meaning of love. Notions of love can be characterized throughout both Donne and Shakespeare’s works. ... In sonnet 116 Shakespeare talks about how love an ever fixed mark between two people. ... In sonnet 116 Shakespeare uses a star and its height to express his love. ... Shakespeare is more focused on the impediments of love, and although you have your ups and downs you stick it out and decide to stay together. ... It seems when Donne wrote A Valediction: forbidding Mourning and Shakespeare sonnet 116 they were both expressing love through past and present experiences.