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Johnson had no other motives behind this poem than the fact that he had just lost his son, and now his status of being a father. He was very clear with his words, "O, could I lose all father, now!" (line 5). This line spoke to how he felt for losing his father title because of his sons sudden death. He also mourns for himself as a result of losing this title, "Here doth lie Ben Johnson his best piece of poetry"(line 9-10). Ben Johnson is a selfish man for putting himself first before mourning over the lost of his son. He cares more for himself and what carries to his name and title, rather than the realities of a man who had lost his blood tied son.

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Aphra Behn is a woman of words and wisdom. She did not disappoint when it came to writing "The Disappointment" (pun intended). This poem shares biblical references, physical characteristics, and almost Greek God like traits that add to the emotions of the tone. After our first read of "The Disappointment", we could see that this was a deep sensual relationship that was leading to sex, but ended in the running of the maiden and the man cursing his existence, the Gods and the charms of the Nymph for his inability to perform sex. As for plot, it was easy to understand certain transitions in the relationship, for example "Like lightening through the grove she hies...She leaves, to instruct pursuing eyes" (lines 121, 124). This line was clear to the readers that the Nymph had ran away, to which 'Lysander' curses everything in his form of anger and shame. The language that Behn uses often leaves questions to why she used that specific language in that context. She makes biblical references such as " Finding beneath the verdant leaves a snake...Finding that god of her desires...His silent griefs swell up to storms, And not one god his fury spares" (lines 110, 112, 135-136). But what was the reason to address religion in a poem about a man struggling to perform sex?

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"On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Phillips"

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"On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Phillips"

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As seen in the title of the poem, this will already be dramatically different from Ben Johnson and his poem about the death of his son. Phillips is a very emotional poet, who adds strong metaphorical language to personify her feelings, as if we were feeling them. It is clear that Phillips is mourning for the loss of her son, and it is deeply impacting her. "I did but see him, and he disappear'd, I did but touch the Rosebud, and it fell" (line 5-6), this is a beautiful line that demonstrates how fragile the nature of life is with the imagery of a flower falling apart. It is shown in all ways possible that Phillips is a broken mother who lost her everything, "Thus whilst no eye is witness of my mone, I grieve thy loss (Ah, boy too dear to live!)"(line 13-14). Her loss is greatly emphasized with her metaphorical language and her imagery to nature-as if he is the flower and he was too fragile to live. Although there are other poems of Phillips that demonstrate an unclear message, I wanted to use this poem to contrast how her emotions changed the perspective of her clarity.

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Johnson is not the type to make his poems create misunderstandings or confusions. He gets right into the points/facts with his style of writing. For example, "O, could I lose all father, now!" (line 5) this line is exclaimed to show his emotions whether that be anger or sadness for losing his father title. Johnson illustrates how he felt in that moment with understandable words that visually and metaphorically have no misunderstanding.

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Behn is another woman who doesn't fear hiding her intentions in her poems. But she has no fear in explicitly discussing a mans shame in the performance of sex. "The Disappointment" is an amazing poem that so explicitly told the story of how a man failed to perform sex because of the 'charms' of the Nymph he seduced, "But more the shepherdess's charms, Whose soft bewitching influence Had damned him to the hell of impotence" (lines 138-140.) Behn is clear in stating the shame and disappointment that each character feels, as the nymph had felt disgust for retracting her hand back and the shepherd felt shame for collapsing back onto the bed.

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Throughout all the poems that Phillips has written, "On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Phillips" is the clearest poem where you can discover possibly just from the title, how Phillips is mourning for her son. Completely different from Johnsons version of saying goodbye to his son, Phillips directly tells the audience of her emotions for losing her child, " Tears are my Muse, and sorrow all my Art, So piercing groans must be thy Elogy" (lines 11-12). Her heart is broken into pieces as her tears are becoming her inspiration and sorrow is her form of art. This is a beautiful poem to depict the pain of a grieving mother, the metaphors of nature being fragile shown in line 6; "I did but touch the Rose bud and it fell", is a great depiction of how Phillips uses metaphors to clearly show her intention.

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John Donne is very clearly a romanticist who writes with a serious tone. He does not hide his emotions in the lines of "The Flea", but he does hide what the true message of who 'The Flea' is. Donne doesn't explicitly state who the flea is in the relationship, nor does he explain what the flea is doing to the couple. But he does
explain through his emotions and tone of his words, how he feels about this flea; " A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead" (5-6). Throughout our class discussion, we examined that all of us have different perspectives of what this flea could possibly mean. For my theory, I believe it represents the virginity of the woman. "Let not to that, self murder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three" (17-18), the female body in this time was sacred and her virginity was to be protected. Taking her virginity was closely associated to the "murder" of innocence. Is the "self murder" that Donne is talking about, her innocence that was actually her virginity? Donne blurs what the true message but can clearly depict his emotions to this flea. What do you think?

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While Johnson write in an understandable language, Donne often uses metaphoric language to distract his readers from the true meaning of the poem. For example, in "The Flea" it is told through emotions how the couple or the man feels about the flea, "A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead" (lines 5-6). The man feels all these emotions and doesn't know how to control it because of his fear of committing a bigger sin that he already has. Donne writes with metaphors and figurative language that blurs out the true meaning of who the flea is in the poem.