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 wh ....
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