7/28/12 Poet of the Day - John Donne

Donne, John (1572-1631), English poet, prose writer, and clergyman, considered the greatest of the metaphysical poets and one of the greatest writers of love poetry.

Although he was known for love poems and devotional poems, this brief one of his struck me recently as a succinct definition of futility almost flippant in its simplicity:

A Burnt Ship

Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

o_O

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