Unlike most of the love poetry that we have read thus far, Donne examines the joint soul-body effort in falling in love. Previous poets have either glorified only the body with numerous blazons or glorified themselves for being so noble as to love a beautiful soul which does not belong to a beautiful body. It has been either lust or love but rarely both. Donne isn’t even really advocating sex and physical attraction but instead makes the point that we must have a body in order for our souls to meet. Not only does he say we need this body but that we should be thankful for it for alerting us to the fact that we have found our soul mate. Donne’s language slips the reader in and out of soul/body imagery and makes the two concepts seem like one. He continually refers to the idea of a new soul made with the joining of two, or essentially the thought that two become one. But this could also be seen on a physical level as conception, especially with lines such as “redoubles still, and multiplies,” and “the subtle knot which makes us man,” that conjure the image of conception and DNA replication. Another great use of language is Donne’s constant reference to the color violet. The two colors that must combine to create violet are pink and blue, colors that are often representative of gender. I thought this poem, along with the others that we read of Donne’s, was incredibly thought provoking and insightful.