In John Donnes poem Loves Deity, he presents a unique structure, diction with the words love and God, and imagery. What I found interesting about this poem it is a male speaker, I wonder why Donne had choose a male speaker for this poem.
When Donne presents Loves Deity, he specifically changes the last line of each stanza, stating that if the women loves him or doesn't love him. This structure for me, gave an imaage of the speaker picking the petals off a rose. This image came to mind, because the speaker couldn't decide if she loves him or not.
John Donne's poem also mentions the word god tons of times. I also notice that the word god was't capitialized in the poem, which I question John Donne's reasoning of not recogonizing "God" as a higher power. He uses words such as ungod, godhead, god of love, etc, which could suggest that Donne is showing his religon in this oem. These "god" references, may be that he wants to beleive that she loves him.
The speakers faith in the poem also changes, as in the in the first 3 stanzas, where he constantly makes references to god, but completely changes in the last stanza. He mentions that he is now atheist. Donne shows how the speaker no longer believes that his love may not love him no more, or at least that is one of many interpretaions I have saw.
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