Essay Archive - Piercy’s “Simple Song” and Donne’s “A Lecture upon the Shadow”: Human Desire For Love
Piercy’s “Simple Song” and Donne’s “A Lecture upon the Shadow”: Human
Desire For Love
George Elliot said, “What greater thing is there for two human
souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other
in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each
other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken
memories.” Both Marge Piercy’s “Simple Song” and John Donne’s “A Lecture
upon the Shadow” focus on the human desire to have someone to love and all
the obstacles that prevent a union from happening.
In the beginning....
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