Question

Read this line from the poem:

We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms

What does the metaphor in this line imply about the poet and his love?

A.Poetry will enable them to escape from hostile criticism.
B.They intend to hide away in a room to keep their love a secret.
C.They intend to elope and get married.
DPoetry will be a fitting memorial of their love.

Answer 1

from "The Canonization"
by John Donne

Call us what you will, we are made such by love;
Call her one, me another fly,
We're tapers too, and at our own cost die,
And we in us find the eagle and the dove.
The phoenix riddle hath more wit
By us; we two being one, are it.
So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.
We die and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by this love.

We can die by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tomb or hearse
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;
And if no piece of chronicle we prove,
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;
As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,
And by these hymns, all shall approve
Us canonized for love;

Answer 2

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/donne/section2.rhtml

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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