The Relationship Between Donne's Religious And Secular Verse.
Donne's love poetry and his religious verse have an extremely close relationship and this manifests itself in the presence of religious imagery and reference in his love poems, the presence of imagery in his religious poems that is more akin to that from courtly love, and in his style and technique. It is this sense of Donne's individuality that creates two types of poetry that, for all their differences, are strikingly similar.
The holy sonnets refer to the old love poet characteristics of Donne, such as in I am little world' when he remembers the fire of lust', or his words to his profane mistress' in what if this present'. However now he regrets and repents' his tears wasted on his past idolatries of women, as he now feels such sensual love is far inferior to his present love for God, and even feels that such a past was ,'my sin' (Oh might these sighs'). But Donne does not render his......
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