John Donnes The Indifference :: Poets, Poetry, Prose

John Donnes The Indifference is a love verse that give the sack be interpreted in a number of ways. non only is the meaning of the text debatable, but the audience for which the poem was think can be argued as well. The language Donne uses leaves room for the readers imagination and judgment to take over and decide to whom he is lecture and why. The author is paper to a specific audience for a specific reason, stressful to father his point through his verse. While not all people pit as to whom this poem is intended for or whom the speaker is really talking to, I have a good understanding as to what Donne is trying to accomplish by writing The Indifference and whom the voice of the piece is actually talking to. The interpretation that I found to be most convince is that he is speaking to a charcleaning lady, who is by herself, and he is letting her live what kind of qualities (or lack there of) he is looking for. He is prominent a disclaimer to her on the type of person he is and how he views relationships so she knows what shes getting herself into. The first stanza starts off with the speaker listing antagonist character types. All of the types listed refer to different types of women, Her whom the county formed, and whom the town and Her who still weeps with soggy eyes, / And her who is dry cork, and never cries. The speaker is not referring to one type of char cleaning woman in particular, but to all women in general. He is telling the woman that he is addressing know just how many different types of woman he can or will potentially be interested in. some other interesting aspect of the first stanza is Donnes wording at the beginning of apiece line. He starts each with either I can love or Her who. This is his passive way of informing the reader as to what type of woman he can and wants to love any woman who is alive and uncoerced to take a chance on him. It is not until the final cardinal lines of the stanza that he actuall y puts any requirements as to what kind of a woman he specifically wants, I can love her, and her, and you and you, / I can love any, so she be not true.