Catch a Falling Star
What is your reaction to this poem? Is it offensive to women, funny, both, or something else?
I think this poem is not offensive to women. I think it refers and talks about frustrated men who never find someone good enough for them. Men should feel more offended than women with this poem.
Find the hyperboles or exagerations in the poem.
Go and catch a falling star. Who cleft the devil’s foot. Ride ten thousand days and nights.
To whom is this speaker talking? What do you think might have occasioned the poem?
The speaker seems to be talking to other men. What might have occasioned the poem was a deception or a sequence of deceptions towards women who lied to him and that he never found a woman who truly loved him.
In the second stanza, what does the speaker say his listener will diescover about a woman both true and fair?
If someone thinks he met a true and fair woman, he will soon notice she is not really true and fair for that every woman out there is flase.
What hyperboles do you see in love songs, whether modern or from other times? How do the sentiments in Donne’s song compare with those in love songs?
“Ride ten thousand days and nights” it’s an example un Donne’s song. Unlike love songs of years ago, songs from these days are not as much emotional and compromising. I think love songs are not as serious as they used to be and is very unlikely to see a hyerbole in one today.
