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John Donne was not only the most renown English metaphysical poet of his time but also one of its most celebrated preachers. Donne’s poetry falls into two basic groups, the early erotic and ironic verse and the later religious poems of which the “Holy Sonnets” are a major part. His love poetry centers on the nature and psychology of love. As a minister of the Anglican Church, Donne’s religious poems powerfully express his yearning for union with God and his obsession with salvation and death (Benet 268). However, Donne did not avoid social problems and everyday concerns (Drabble 211). For example, one of the most cited lines in all of Donne’s works is about the brotherhood of man: “As not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. . .The