A Valediction

[safetypatrol713]

I miss drives to Rockport accompanied by UnderOath. I can't listen to They're Only Chasing Safety without thinking of that time. It's amazing how music can so violently return you to a different time in your life

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[theherocomplex]

john donne is one of my favorite poets EVER. have you read "the flea"? i think it beats out "to his coy mistress" as far as seduction poems go.

oh and then there's this: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegy_XIX:_To_His_Mistress_Going_to_Bed

i read somewhere that while he abroad, he had a hallicunation of his wife walking across his bedroom with a dead child in her arms. it was right around the time that she miscarried. :(

[safetypatrol713]

Yea we actually read all of those today. I definitely liked Forbidden Mourning the best but To His MIstress Going to Bed was pretty raunchy/seductive.

And that's really sad. :(

[safetypatrol713]

oh also I think it's incredibly sweet that he still wrote poems like that about his wife even after they had been married for a while. My professor said that was very rare for the time.

[neque]

Yeah, that album is good! I like it and it takes me back in time also! I always destroy my throat trying to scream that much!