The title of the poem is grossly misleading since throughout the poem he seems to be unsure of what exactly he believes in. The poem is about a boy/girl who doesn’t have an idea of loving someone. It is merely his imagination of how it should be. He describes a situation of love in his perspective but doesn’t highlight actual feelings, just notions of the emotions. The speaker draws on Ptolemaic concepts to compare his/her beloved to the aerial form assumed by angels when they appear to humans. The speaker views love as something religious comparing how God loves humans and how humans love humans.
The persona uses old fashioned words such as thy and thee which makes the poem more authentic. The author expresses how the body an the spirit are closely related when it comes to love. “Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be; Still when, to where thou wert, I came,” The persona creates an image that love cannot exist without a host in the same way the soul cannot exist without a host body. This is seen by the quote, “That it assume thy body, I allow, And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.” (Donne line 14-15).
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The tone of the persona is merely sarcastic as he expresses disappointment that love is not all that he expected. He thought that a person would fight more for love but all that he experienced was a burden of love when the sensual and spiritual components did not correlate. The persona comes to the realization that for love to be as he expects, the spiritual love and the sensual love must interact together in equal proportion “He realizes that both sensuality and spirituality is essential for love to succeed” (Donne 16).
