Comparison of Donne and Jennings Poetry

Consider the ways in which Donne and Jennings use form, structure and language to present their thoughts and ideas. You should make relevant references to your wider reading in the poetry of love.
The poem the ‘The Anniversary’ By John Donne, is a metaphysical poem about the sun itself growing older each year, this process reminds Donne that him and his lover are closer to their end. The second poem is called ‘One Flesh’, and is written by Elizabeth Jennings. In the course of this poem Jennings explores the relationship and separateness of her now elderly parents. There are multiple contrasting factors between these two poems, considering they are both written from different time periods and view love in sharply differing perspective.
In some sense both these poems can be seen as similar because they are presented from the viewpoints of the poets themselves. However, they contrast in the aspect of how they view the love they are speaking about. In ‘The Anniversary’ Donne has a dreamlike and romanticised view on the experience of him and his lover, he proclaims his love to be ‘all Kings’ and ‘All glory’. The repetition of ‘all’ reinforces just how disillusioned he is by comparing everything to his love. The fact that this words starts off the first two lines of the poem, instantly indicates how this is a positive poem, where Donne is in a deep state of love. Similarly, in another poem ‘The Sun Rising’ also by Donne, he addresses the sun in his speech requesting the sun to always shine on him and his lover. This request seems fairly absurd and melodramatic, thus indicating how the speaker in this poem is also disillusioned by love. Contrasting, the speaker in ‘One Flesh’, is not presenting love to be dreamy. Instead Jennings is taking the form of a child narrator and is particularly bitter about her parents love. This can be seen by how she separates ‘my father and my mother’; some may interpret this to be in a bitter tone especially by the use of ‘my’ and how she