While reading "Satire III For Religion", I've found more aspects which I find interesting. The most which attracts me the most is the difference between this poem and the one I read for my presentation, "A hymn to God the Father".
In Satire III, John Donne unleashes a frightening and severe critique to religion, specifically, religion. In this poem, the author mostly using rhetorical questions, tells that men must not shed tears over their sins and instead "be wise", for which I conclude that Donne thinks that those which do this are dumb or "not wise".
On the other hand, "A hymn to God the father" reflects potentially religious aspects of John Donne. This aspects are revealed because of the imminent and unavoidable death of John Donne. In this poem, John Donne makes a mention to the first sin described in the bible, and uses it in order to justify in a certain way, his sins.
What I found interesting about this is that even though at first in Satire III, John Donne mocks at God and religion, before passing away he leaves this behind and tries to redeem himself to God for all his sins. Interesting is that, this attitudes reside mostly in the fear towards the posible existence of God himself and also the fear to pass away and "perish on the shore".
"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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