Critical Analysis of "The Indifferent" by John Donne


"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 poem
was obviously meant to be a comical look at values that were opposite the ones
held by Christians. According to Clay Hunt, "['The Indifferent'] is probably
quite an early poem because of the simplicity and obviousness of its literary
methods, its untroubled gaiety, and its pose of libertinism, which all suggest
that Donne wrote [the poem] when he was a young man about town in Elizabethan
London" (1-2). The poem "mocks the Petrarchan doctrine of eternal faithfulness,
putting in its place the anti-morality which argues that constancy is a 'heresy'
and that 'Love's sweetest part' is 'variety'" (Cruttwell 153). The first......

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