An Analysis of the Poem Love’s Alchemy by John Donne (949 words, 2 pages)
In Loves Alchemy, John Donne sets up an analogy between the Platonists, who try, endlessly, to discover spiritual love, and the alchemists, who in Donnes time, tried to extract gold from baser metals. This analogy allows Donne to express his beliefs that such spiritual love does not exist and those ...
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