Images of Love
Upon reading the poem "The Broken Heart", by John Donne, I have found many uses of imagery. I can see the man "swallowing: the love he receives but not "chewing" it. Donne says the lover takes in the love he receives half-heartedly. He does not appreciate his woman's affection to him.Another powerful image Donne uses is line sixteen. He says, "He is the tyrant pike, out hearts the fry." A fry is a small fish that the pike devours. I assume a pike is close to a barracuda or a shark. Donne is saying that the love is using his sweetheart for his own benefits, just like a pike to a fry.
The third image used in the poem are lines thirty-one and thirty-two. The girl laments, "My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,/But after one such love, can love no more." She is saying that her heart is torn to pieces and she cannot love again. Donne leads the reader to believe that this was her first love and they were close at one time before.
Donne preaches to the reader that love can be weak and shallow. That is the truth even though I do not like it at all.
