Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe: Summary
'Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe' is a love poem written by "John Donne". In this poem, the poet describes the importance of true love in human life. The poets are going away from his beloved. She becomes very sad. The poet consoles his beloved over a temporary separation.
He says that he is going from here but not because he is tired of her or helps to find a better match for him. He is parting because he wishes to die in jest. One day he has to die.
So, before death, he wants to keep himself happy. The poet assures his beloved that he will come back just as the sun comes back. He promises that he will become faster than the sun. He tells her that this parting is nothing in comparison to the final parting which comes with death.
So, she should not shed tears over his departure. He further says that even if he dies, he will be present in her. So, there is no question of separation.
Thus, the poet means to say that true love cannot be separated even by death. They are never parted from each other.
Objectives
1. Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe is written by ..............
- Kamala Das
- D.H. Lawrence
- John Donne
- Walt Whitman
Answer:- John Donne
2. John Donne is a .............. poet.
- German
- British
- American
- Indian
Answer:- British
3. Who was forced to leave Oxford University without a degree?
- John Donne
- Walt Whitman
- W.H. Auden
- None of these
Answer:- John Donne
- Kamala Das
- D.H. Lawrence
- Walt Whitman
- John Donne
5. Whose tears are like rains?
- her husband
- his wife's
- his sister
- None of these
Answer:- his wife's
6. Whose signs are like wind in the high seas?
- John Donne
- W.H. Auden
- Walt Whitman
- None of these
Answer:- John Donne
7. Who will make quicker journeys then the sun?
- Walt Whitman
- John Donne
- W.H. Auden
- Kamala Das
Answer:- John Donne
8. What does John Donne wish?
- wishes his wife
- wishes something
- wishes nothing
- None of these
Answer:- wishes nothing
9. The poet(John Donne) is better than the ...............
- moon
- earth
- sun
- venus
Answer:- sun
10. ................. has been described as a metaphysical poet.
- TS Eliot
- Walt Whitman
- John Donne
- John Keats
Answer:- John Donne
11. The redness of the fire appears ................ to the poet.
- cruel
- nice
- comfortable
- acceptable
Answer:- cruel
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12. John Donne is going to .............. leaving his wife behind.
- Germany
- France
- England
- Italy
Answer:- Germany
13. .............. wants to gladly accept death.
- John Keats
- TS Eliot
- Walt Whitman
- John Donne
Answer:- John Donne
14. John Donne thinks that ................. is certain.
- life
- death
- work
- walking
Answer:- death
15. John Donne wants to go away because he is not tired of his ..............
- father
- brother
- sister
- beloved
16. John Donne was born in ...............
- 1562
- 1672
- 1572
- 1570
17. John died in ............
- 1641
- 1631
- 1702
- 1615
18. John Donne was the pioneer of new kind of lyrical and satirical verse called ................
- Metaphorical
- Free verse
- New school verse
- Metaphysical
19. John Donne presents himself in ‘Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ in ...............
- the first person singular number
- the first person plural number
- the third person singular number
- None of these
20. ‘Sweetest Love, ‘I Do Not Goe’ is ................
- a didactic poem
- an allegorical poem
- a love poem
- None of these
21. John Donne is well-known for his ...............
- songs and sonnets
- satires
- sermons
- All of these
22. ‘Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’ may be compared with Shakespeare’s ................
- ‘All the World’s Stage’
- ‘The Marriage of True Minds’
- ‘Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind’
- None of these
Subjective
1. How did John Donne console his wife at the time of departure?
Ans:- 'Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe', a love poem by John Donne is grounded in religious sensibility. Donne comforts his wife by saying that eventually, death will part us.
So, it best to prepare for it. He says that though he is going right now, he will not be gone forever and eventually return to her. He consoles her not to mourn on his departure and answers that their love is too strong for a permanent parting.
2. Why does the poet want to go away from his beloved?
Ans:- The poet feels that since everyone must die. It is best to get used to the sorrow of the final parting in these jest partings. He is neither tired nor desirous of a new beloved.
3. What will make the poet's journey speedier?
Ans:- It is the constant thought of his beloved that would make his return journey speedier than that of the sun.
4. In what way will the lovers remain united?
Ans:- True lovers live each other's consciousness. Death can never triumph over them. In the event of his death, she merely has to think of their relationship as that of lovers who are sleeping together but turned away from one another. Love will ultimately thus, overcome death.
5. Explain it 'A fitter love for me'.
Ans:- 'A fitter love' means a more suitable lover which the speaker insists, he does not desire.
6. What makes a man's power feeble?
Ans:- Man has not the strength to add a moment to the happiness that befalls him. He is helpless before death. However, he is capable of increasing his misery by weeping and sighing.
7. What are the things that the sun does not have?
Ans:- The poet is better than the sun which departs today but comes the next day. The sun has no motive, no sense. Neither the sun's journey to the earth is so short.
8. How does the beloved waste the poet's life by weeping and sighing?
Ans:- When she sighs, the poet feels as if his soul is being mingled with the wind, thus leaving him. When she weeps the poet's won blood deteriorates at the sight. By doing so, she is wasting her own life as well as the life of the poet.
Explanation
1. "They who one another keepe Alive, ne'r parted bee".
>>> In these lines of the poem 'Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe', the poet John Donne tells his beloved that true and sincere lovers can never be parted. Even if they are away from each other for a short period.
>>> The lines have been taken from the poem Sweetest Love I do not Goe, by the famous metaphysical poet John Donne. The poet is asking his beloved not to shed tears or breathe heavily at the time of his departure for a foreign country.
Her sighing and weeping will take his soul away and his life-blood will decay.
3. O how feeble is mans power
That if good fortune fall,
Cannot adde another houre.
>>> These lines have been taken from the poem Sweetest Love I do not Goe which is written by John Donne. The poet himself feels how helpless a man is when the good fortune of a man falls. He cannot add a single moment in his lifetime. It is rightly said that time and tide wait for none.
4. That thou lov'st mee, as thou say'st
>>> These lines have been taken from the poem Sweetest Love I do not Goe which is written by John Donne. The poet himself feels how helpless a man is when the good fortune of a man falls. He cannot add a single moment in his lifetime. It is rightly said that time and tide wait for none.
4. That thou lov'st mee, as thou say'st
It in thine my life thou waste,
Thou art the best of mee.
>>> These lines have been taken from the poem Sweetest Love I do not Goe, written by John Donne. His beloved said that she had a great love for him. She loved him too much. He said that she had wasted his life and taken the best part of it. Despite that the speaker to be separated from her.
5. Sweetest love, I do not goe,
5. Sweetest love, I do not goe,
For wearinesse of thee,
Nor in the hope the world can show
>>> These lines have been taken from the poem Sweetest Love I do not Goe, which is written by John Donne. The poet says to his beloved that he will not go from here. He does not feel the tiredness. He has no hope of getting due to love from the world.
He wants to go away from his beloved. Because he knows it better than he would die one day or another. He wants to amuse himself.
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