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