Critical Analysis Of "The Indifferent" By John Donne
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"The Indifferent" by John Donne is a relatively simple love poem in
comparison to his other, more complicated works. In this poem, "he presents a
lover who regards constancy as a 'vice' and promiscuity as the path of virtue
and good sense" (Hunt 3). Because of Donne's Christian background, this ....
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.... to an audience of people, w
hile the last one looks back and refers to the first two stanzas as a "song."
The audience to which this poem was intended is very important because it can
drastically change the meaning of the poem, and has therefore been debated among
the critics. While most critics believe that the audience changes from men, to
women, then to a single woman, or something along those lines, Gregory Machacek
believes that the audience remains throughout the poem as "two women who ....
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