The Attitudes to Love Addressed in Loves Alchemy and...

The Attitudes to Love Addressed in Loves Alchemy and Twicknam Garden Twicknam Garden was a poem written by John Donne in 1607. It is one of John Donnes late pieces of work and is thought to be written about his patron and his feelings for her. Compared to his patron he was a much lower class, almost a beggar compared to her. Twicknam Garden shows a very unique outlook on love, it shows definate bitterness towards love, but in a more reserved way than Loves Alchemy, Twicknam Garden disdains love, but shows some respect towards the feeling. Whereas Loves Alchemy holds a completely different outlook and resentment to the feeling completely and wishes that this feeling had never been felt at all.†¦show more content†¦However manna is understood it is obvious that manna would be the feelings felt when one was in love, and however they have been transcended to acidic feelings, burning up inside. In Loves Alchemy, John Donne sets up an analogy between the Platonists, who try, endlessly, to discover spiritual love, and the alchemists, who in Donnes time, tried to extract gold from baser metals. Donne is trying to show a different side to love, expressing his beliefs that spiritual love does not exist and those who are searching for it are only wasting their time. He suggests that all love relies on heavily based sexual connections, which is why the first lines give great sexual reference, The poem opens with two lines that lay the groundwork for the analogy and that have a sexual implication. The word digged and the image of loves mine, obviously allow for the comparison between the Platonists and the alchemists. Instead of resenting love in this poem, John resents a specific outlook on love, the more spiritual side of love. In Twicknam Garden Donne talks about either his lover, or love in General being like the snake in the Garden of Eden, True paradise, I have the serpent brought. In Twicknam Garden Donne is