The Bait

Thoughts on "The Bait"


In the poem The Bait by John Donne he describes the good and the bad thing about love. He tries to portray what love really is. To achieve this he changes his diction from that of a loving and caring tone to that of an alarming tone. He also uses word choice to do this.

In the first half of the poem the speaker talks about the good things about love. Donne uses the metaphor of bait to represent love. Just as fishes are drawn to bait the bait says that people are drawn to love as if it is something enjoyable. Donne uses words such as golden, crystal, pleasures, enarmour’d and amorously.

In the second half of the poem Donne switches the diction and starts using alarming and upsetting words such as freeze, cut treacherously and strangling and snare. He does this to emphasize the change that can happen with after you are in love.

In conclusion the speaker then says that those who don’t fall in love are smarter than he was. He says this because those who avoid love or prefer not to fall for loves bait are smart because they will not be hurt by love’s deceit.

The Good Morrow

In the poem The Good-Morrow, Donne uses word choice and diction to show the reader the narrators’ love for his lover through a romantic tone.

In the first stanza Donne writes about how the narrator and his lover were metaphorically asleep. The narrator wandered around aimlessly before meeting his love in the first line. He states that before they met or loved each other they did not know anything especially that of beauty. We can see this when he says, “twas but a dream of thee”. It is very obvious that also in this stanza Donne writes in the past tense, dwelling on their past experiences. To create a romantic tone in this stanza he uses words such as loved, pleasures, childishly, beauty and dream. These words create a certain feeling within the reader

After they are acquainted and awakened in the second stanza Donne switches the tense and starts using present tense. In this stanza he treats there love as if it were a journey, with things to be discovered. He wants them to go hand in hand on this journey so they could be close and be one.

From other Donne poems I have realized that he uses the image of reflections in his poems about love and he does this in the final stanza in the first line. He starts to mention that they are perfect for each other and they are meant for each other. He uses metaphors such as hemispheres to describe them and their love for each other. Overall Donne just wants to show how true love is supposed to be.

Blasphemy

For my Resistance project my friends and i decide to protest against talking the Lord our God's name in vain. people often to this without thinking of what they are saying or who they are offending around them. we decided to make tee shirts with a quote on them which says "Don't offend my God; I don't offend yours".

while i wore this tee shirt during the day a lot of people asked what my shirt said. when i told them what it said many agreed and told me that they believe that too. a few others said that this was part of the way they talk and would probably not stop taking Gods name in vain, although they were professed Christians.



i think that if people really cared about serving God and wanted to be better Christians they would try to stop saying such things especially seeing that it is part of the ten commandments. im not saying that i doont slip up sometime but i try to not say such things when i can.

People often say such things as a form of frustration. a solution for this although many may disagree with me is just to use plain old curse words such as the F word and the S word. these words don't discriminate anyone and would a fine replacement.

Numbers

Just like how the women in the play united for a common cause so did the men. They all came together even though they were enemies and made peace for the sake of sex. Lol. This goes to show that there is power in numbers.

Idiots?

The play portrays men as bumbling idiots that know nothing else but sex and war. We can see this when Kinesias was talking to his wife and he mentioned his son. Without his wife there he could not take care of himself or his son. the son had not taken a bath in over a week

Horny?

The men in lysistarta must have been a horny bunch of people who have no self control. When I read it there was no indication of that much time passing so why are the men want sex so much. Or is it that they have no self control.

Brain Vs Braun Pt 2

this is part two of the brain vs braun blog. the play probably wants to draw out the fact that strength does not always work, but sometimes you have to use your brain in some situations.