The poet of "The Broken Heart," and who wrote many love songs, prose and sonnets.
Who is John Donne
100
The main idea of the poem that John Donne is trying to express.
What is a broken heart from love.
100
The number of stanzas within the poem.
What is 4.
100
This carnivorous fish was used in a metaphor in order to characterize love.
What is Pike?
200
The strict religion that John Donne was born into; it was prominent within this 17th century time period.
What is Catholicism
200
What Donne interprets what love is like when only having been in love for a year.
What is a plague.
200
The meter used in lines 1, 2,3,5, and 6.
What is Iambic Tetrameter.
200
Literary device utilized to envision his heartbreak's blow " as shiver it as glass."
What is similie?
300
The type of poetry where John Donne was able to express his utmost personal feelings and ardent passion towards his lover.
What is love poetry
300
The feeling that Donne expresses repeatedly throughout stanza two to portray his broken heart.
What is Grief?
300
The rhyme scheme that each of the stanzas in the poem follow.
What is ABABCCDD.
300
Literary devices utilized to characterize love as one who ""swallows us and never chaws.“
What is personification?
400
The literary era that John Donne lived in and wrote poetry in.
What is Metaphysical
400
The stanza where Donne specifically adresses his lover and recalls the moment when love destroyed his heart and shattered it like glass.
What is Stanza 3.
400
The meter used in lines 4, 7 and 8.
What is Iambic Pentameter
400
The speaker personifies love to a monster in these lines.
What is lines 4, 14, and 16?
500
The woman that John Donne married and his father disowned him for and who also bore him twelve children.
What is Anne Moore
500
The change in tone from stanza 1 until the last stanza.
What is angry, broken-hearted and reflective, accepting.
500
The stanza that Donne compares the idea of a broken heart to himself.
What is Stanza 3?
500
Donne's use of a relatively simple idea of the fact that love can eventually break your heart but instead compares the idea of love to an unexpected but effective conception.