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The Apparition. By John Donne. When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead. And that thou think'st thee free. From all solicitation from me, Then shall my ghost come to thy bed, And thee, feign'd vestal, in worse arms shall see; Then thy sick taper will begin to wink,
In John Donne's "The Apparition," a heartbroken, furious, rejected speaker tells his one-time beloved exactly how he's going to get his revenge on her. When he dies of heartbreak—as he's certain he will—his ghost will haunt her, making her so miserable she'll be sorry she ever rejected him.
- Analysis of The Apparition
- Conclusion
- About John Donne
Lines 1-4
In the poem, ‘The Apparition’, (which means ghost) the poet is shown angry with his beloved and says that she is no better than a murderess. When he is killed by her scornful rejection of his advances, she would consider herself free. She would then think that she would not be troubled ever again with his love-making. But she would soon realize her mistake, for his ghost will visit her in her bedroom.
Lines 5-10
The poet, through this extract, imagines that his ghost would find her in the arms of another man, much worse than he. She had always been putting him off pleading virginity, but all her claims to virginity would prove to be false when she would be discovered sleeping with another man. The meaning of the phrase ‘Feign’d Vestall’ refers to the one who falsely pleaded her virginity in order to put him off. At the time, the candle in her room would be burning with a weak, flickering light. She w...
Lines 11-13
The poet further says when she would find another man asleep and shrinking away from her, she would be left trembling miserably, like an aspen leaf (i.e., the poor, miserable woman, who trembles with fear like a leaf of the Aspen tree. The leave of the aspen is so thin that it shakes even when there seems to be no wind). She would lie there neglected by her lover. Her body would all be bathed in sweat, white and cold like mercury. Then she would look more like a ghost than he himself. By ‘qui...
Thus, the poem, ‘The Apparition”, is characterized by an intensity of passion and simplicity. The lover’s disappointment and frustration towards her beloved have been adequately conveyed. The language is simple. It is entirely free from those difficult, and out of the way, illusions, and references which are such stumbling blocks in the way of Donn...
Donne’s love poems cover a wide range of feelings from extreme physical passion to spiritual love, and express varied moodsranging from a mood of cynicism and contempt to one of faith and acceptance. Hence, it is difficult to classify them with any exactness. Donne’s love poetry covers a wider range of emotions than that of any previous poet, and t...
The ‘Apparition’, an unusually straightforward poem by Donne’s standards, is a revenge fantasy in which the speaker, a rejected man, imagines himself haunting his former lover in order to...
“The Apparition” is a 17-line poem written in varying meter and with an unusual rhyme scheme. It thus is disconcerting as a poem, reflecting the odd and alarming content of the poet’s threat.
The Apparition. When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead, And that thou thinkst thee free. From all solicitation from mee, Then shall my ghost come to thy bed, And thee, fain'd vestall, in worse armes shall see; Then thy sicke taper will begin to winke, And he,whose thou art then, being tyr'd before,
14 feb 2024 · The Apparition. by John Donne. →. WHEN by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead, And that thou thinkst thee free. From all solicitation from me, Then shall my ghost come to thy bed, And thee, feign'd vestal, in worse arms shall see: Then thy sick taper will begin to wink,
