John Donne's Broken Heart

John Donne’s poem “Broken Heart” describes a man who fell in love with love but love gave him the boot. “I brought a heart into the room, but from the room I carried non with me.” The man had his heart ripped from him. Love is seen as a decaying disease. Every stanza uses strong imagery to get the point across. John Donne’s poem “The Broken Heart” is an exempla nary example of imagery and figurative language. John Donne says once he loved and he’ll never love again.
“He is stark mad, whoever says, that he hath been in love an hour, yet not that love so soon decays.” The speaker in the poem says he felt connected to a ball and chain when consume...