Refer to ‘The Ecstasy’ and discuss the poem as an example of Donne’s presentation of love.

The Ecstasy’ seems, in every sense, a poem in which the two lovers are portrayed as equal hemispheres combining to form a perfect sphere. The poem is an expression not only of the unity of the two lovers, both spiritually and physically, but of the bodies and souls of the two lovers, with eachother and with themselves.

Donne creates an image of the two lovers in eachother’s eyes:

And pictures in our eyes to get
Was all our propagation

Which relates to the same image from ‘The Good Morrow’,

My face in thine eye,
Thine in mine appears.

There perhaps could not be a more appropriate image to illustrate the unity and equality of the two lovers. In the “Good Morrow”, the image of the two lovers in eachother’s eyes suggests the physical closeness of the lovers, and the anticipation of sex. However, in the ecstasy, the images of the “eye beams twisted…upon one double string�...