"Go and Catch a Falling Star" by John Donne

A reading of Donne's cynical poem. He doesn't think it is impossible to find a faithful woman, just very unlikely.

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• Falling
• Star
• Donne
• fidelity
• poem

[Piquarian]

Is it 'wind' (as in past tense something wound) or wind as by definition air blowing?

[SpokenVerse]

@Piquarian Wind as in West Wind. It was pronounced to rhyme with "mind" in those days.

[aspokenpoetsverse]

True love,amusing,enjoyed this poem.

[ricardopickman]

I'd like to hear Patrick Stewart reading this poem.

[thissong4you]

It appears Anne More overcame Donne's cynicism, since he married her against the wishes of her father George More and Donne's benefactor, Sir Thomas Egerton, resulting in his imprisonment, and mourned her deeply when she died shortly after the birth of their twelfth child, never remarrying, and writing his 17th Holy Sonnet, "Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt/To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead," Lovely reading. Lovely that Donne found the unlikely "woman true and fair."

[42TulsaGirl]

Donne doesn't seem so angry as sorrowfully cynical. As for his take on women, the same can be said of men. But not all women or men, only those with unfaithful hearts. Beautiful reading adds pathos to the mood.

[TheJackyyy]

Donne sounds so angry in this poem, have you any context on this poem? :)

[anime00manga]

Beautiful reading of a beautiful poem. Thank you!

[Piquarian]

Ah, thanks for confirming.

[george054065]

Love it.