The Bait!!!

In John DOnne's "The Bait" he uses conciet and diction to show the power that women withhold. Throughout this piece he consistantly shows how the bait has the ability lure in fish because it has alluring characteristics. This bait is not like any other because it is unusally and not average. This bait is uniquely wise...wiser than the speaker. What could be wise, and intelligent yet capivating and suave? The answer to this question is a women and who better to be a fish than a man? This is the conceit that Donne within this poem, he chooses his words very carfully to show exactly how the speaker feels about this particular bait.

In the 1st stanza the speaker is trying to convince this bait to come be with him. But he doesn't approach her as if she was a average person, he approaches her with this very romantic mood. Donne conveys this by using the word"my luver", not my girlfriend or boo, not even his significant other. The word "lover" is an intimate word. The fact that the speaker wants her to be his lover shows the affect this bait has on him, it shows that she has caught his attention. and has manipulated his emotions and is in control of there relationship. She has the ability to decline his offer to be his "lover" or to accept it. In the last stanza it is also shown that the bait controls the speakers emotions because usually men in particular dont admit that they have lost. But Donne's uses the words "Alas, is wiser far than me". The speaker has lost to this bait, she is wiser. He can't win.

This women or bait is in control of the fish that she captures. This is shown in the last stanza when Donne uses the words "For thou thyself art thine own bait:". If this women is her own bait that mens she has no competition because she is so powerful. She can't be lured in by anyone else because she can have whatever she wants, no one is like her.

In conclusion, Donne uses this conceit to prove that women are bait for men. They use cunning and trickery to lure in men. Women are very interesting creatures with there own style.

Donne-the good morrow

In John Donne's "The Good-Morrow" he uses diction to show how love exceeds the boundaries of time. Each stanza is a representation of a different point in time;past present and future. Throughout time love progresses from nothing, to everlasting. The speakers past that was without love was nothing, and pointless, but currently with love the speaker's soul is now alive with passion. Now tht the speaker has attained love, it is immortal it can't die. This love that the speaker possesses has no ending time, or death because it is just that powerful that it cant be contained by a clock or year. Once this speak found love, he found eternal life.

Donne's language in the 1st stanza shows how life was before love;confused, undeveloped and not awake. When he uses multiple question marks this shows the his confusion. Because the poem is written as if he were speaking to himself, so he is obvioulii asking himself these questions because he he is uncertain and confused. This confusion is also showing the how childlike his life is because he is without love and understanding of love. Donne also uses the words "Sleepers" and "dream" to show the state of his life when he is without love. "Sleepers" and dream"connote sleeping, and donne uses these words to show that life was not lively and awake with out love. And usually when people are dreaming and sleep their eyez r closed so therefor they cannot see the true essence of life with love.

The 2nd and 3rd stanza's are representations of his life in the present and future. In the 2nd stanza he uses the word "waking". "Waking" is a refreshing word, it connotes liveliness and new brighter days. The presence of luv has caused a newness. With love he is brand new, Donne also never questioned himself once in this stanza were he has found love. He is no longer confused he is quite sure that his soul is alive because of this love that he has aquired. In the 3rd stanza donne says "none can die". This shows that this love that he has is not normal or average it is of another species, one of which that cannot die but onlii live. This love can stand the test of time, which is a rarity.

In conclusion, donne expresses his sentiments about love through his language. He uses positive uplifting wrds to describe life with love. the love that is ao rare and genuine that it cannot die. No time limit can bind love once it is found. Without love he was sleep not aware of the endless possibilities that it would bring him. This love that he has discovered is greater than time and exceeds time.