Air and Angels

1. Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee,

Before I knew thy face or name;

Answer: These line have been taken from the poem “Air and Angels” by  John donne.  There are several themes present in the poem “Air and Angels” by John Donne and each carries a particular meaning. This is a demanding poem, which discusses various theories about love. However, it is very clever and well worth the effort.

John Donne's theory is that love cannot exist in nothing or in things, but somewhere in-between. The ideal of love expressed throughout the poem takes on a shapeless and physical form, but to

John Donne, love takes on the form of air and angels, which is the in-between. Throughout the poem, it shows love taking on two forms, a shapeless and physical form.

     The poet want to tell that love is just what he thought it was from the beginning—an idea without boundaries, much like air—formless and supernatural even though we may try to put it into the terms of flesh and reality.

    2. As is 'twixt air and angels' purity,

    'Twixt women's love, and men's, will ever be.

These line have been taken from the poem “Air and Angels” by  John donne.  There are several themes present in the poem “Air and Angels” by John Donne and each carries a particular meaning. This is a demanding poem, which discusses various theories about love. However, it is very clever and well worth the effort.

when the narrator decides in one of the quotations from “Air and Angels” by John Donne, “As is ‘twixt air’s and angels’ purity, / Twixt women’s love, and men’s, will ever be"since here he concludes that love is just what he thought it was from the beginning—an idea without boundaries, much like air—formless and supernatural even though we may try to put it into the terms of flesh and reality. In some ways, there is actually a conflict and resolution to the poem since the narrator at once declares in the first section quote, That it assume thy body, I allow/And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow" yet by the end of his thoughts he is left with the resolution that there is no way to fix the flesh to the formlessness or “shapelessness of flame" which is, in this case, love.