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Compare the presentation of Donne's and Fitzgerald's presentation of loveeeeee.

Donne and Fitzgerald are well known for their outstanding ability to produce the various formations love can come in. Both from different eras, Donne takes a more traditional approach to love. Unlike Fitzgerald, Donne's sonnets were a method of courting a lover in the 17th century, a more secretive, lustful portrayal of love. Whereas, Fitzgerald conveys love taking place in the Prohibition era also known as the 'Jazz age'. Fitzgerald uses this to make reference to how love survives under the influence of social status, the American dream, idealism and the struggles of economic instability. Thus, taking into consideration these factors, Fitzgerald urges readers to question whether the love expressed is true or in fact, artificial.

Donne expresses love as dominant and something which cannot be over-taken, as he uses a metaphor to describe the ‘sun’ as a ‘busy old fool’. This infers the ‘sun’ is aged, undermining the ‘suns’ natural power to disturb him and his lover. By doing this, Donne educates readers of the lovers ultimate power to ignore the ‘suns’ disruption  affirming the idea that the almighty force of the sun is powerless, in comparison to their love. This idea is reinforced as Donne refers to his love as ‘Both th’ Indias spice and mine’. By incorporating an exotic location and rare, cherished ‘spices’, Donne allows readers to understand how precious his love is to him. This makes readers develop admiration for how unique he perceives his love to be, which is exemplified further as he makes the bold comparison between ‘spices’ and his beloved. Also, by Donne labeling his lover as ‘mine’, this infers how eager Donne is to win his lovers hand and become united. As the poem progresses, Donne is keen to depict how love is his core focus as ‘the bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere’. By using this comparison  Donne portrays how that everything beyond the ‘walls’ in the physical world is minuscule  when weighed up with his love. This is extended further as by Donne explaining that ‘thy sphere’ is in fact subject to their love, urging readers to feel a sense of appreciation for their untouchable bond.

Likewise, in The Anniversary  Donne displays love as timeless. This is depicted as Donne explains although ‘the sun itself, makes times, as they pass’, their love will not change with time. This infers a sense of longevity and strength in their relationship, as it is able to sustain ‘times, as they pass’. This makes readers feel hopeful for the length of their love and how its proven to even surpass nature, the almighty ‘sun’. Also, Donne is able to inject more hope into readers as he ensures them  ‘our love hath no decay’. By using this hyperbole, Donne helps confirm that his love is eternal as it will never ‘decay’, no matter how much ‘time’ will ‘pass’. In addition, this exaggeration informs readers of the extent Donne will go to pursue  not just his love, but ‘our love’. As the poem progress, Donne's love is portrayed to maintain vitality as he outlines that even when their ‘bodies’ are rested in their ‘graves’ their ‘souls from their graves remove’. By expressing their ‘souls’ will still be in unity once they are physically dead, this amplify's Donne's love. The subject of the ‘souls’ enables readers to understand his ‘love’ is seen more as a connection of the minds, than physical attraction. This may be a comment on how genuine love is more than characteristics, geared towards individuals who are compatible mentally.

In contrast, Fitzgerald expresses love as something with no emotional or intellectual substance. Through the character of Daisy, Fitzgerald communicates how ‘her voice’ was ‘full of money’. This enables readers to understand Daisy’s shallow ‘money’ motive, as she’s driven towards Tom rather than the faithful Gatsby. This is depicted further as even as Gatsby makes all his efforts to impress and lur Daisy, she merely responds with ‘ive never seen such beautiful shirts before’. This weak response and instant reference to ‘shirts’ re-affirms the idea that she is drawn towards materialistic goods and is purely distracted by her artificial world. By doing this, readers are made to feel angered by Daisy's wealth driven motive and how depth-less she really is. Whereas, Fitzgerald conveys Gatsby as pre-occupied with the idea of love, rather than Daisy herself. Gatsby is shown blinded as he assures Nick ‘you can’t repeat the past?, why of course you can!’. This statement educates readers of how far distracted Gatsby is of ‘repeating’ the ‘past’, he is unaware of the superficiality of Daisy in the present. By Gatsby being absorbed into the past, readers are urged to evoke sympathy for his ignorance of his current position and helplessness to change it.

Furthermore, Donne's and Fitzgerald's portrayal of love is similar and dissimilar in various ways. Both Donne and Fitzgerald comment on how love can be eternal, as Donne displays its ruling and cannot be over-taken. This is similar in the Fitzgerald's ‘Great Gatsby’ as Gatsby fights to his dying day to pursue Daisy in order to rekindle their love. Although, through characters such as Daisy, Fitzgerald expresses how love can have no substance as its influenced by other factors such as money. Whereas, Donne’s motive seems clear throughout as he perseveres to impress and compliment his love. This is simply for a return of pure love, rather than materialistic gain. Although, it could be that Donne's method is simply a more tactful, intellectual way of alluring his love, in comparison to Daisy who outrightidly marry’s Tom. This may be questioning whether any love is real, as other factors begin to come into consideration, which can in effect, influence the characters decision.

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