Since I am coming to that holy room,
Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore,
I shall be made thy music; as I come
I tune the instrument here at the door,
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THREE: Very sad poem, a great devotion to God addressed in this poem, writing a poem about something that was very bothering him would certainly have brought relief to his deep suffering, a true devotion to God
TWO: from some serious illness, in his time you had not yet the right medicine for a serious infectious disease. People in John Donne's time didn't really heal and in a very short time they die. This is how my mind goes when reading this poem.
ONE: clearly wrote a poem at a time when the poet was near death, or was in a very ill period and that he made this poem as a supplication to God because he thought he was about to die
FOUR: TOP Marks for the great Poet John Donne. I can feel his sufferings, his deep pains in this poem, devotional poem for God, surely it brought great relief to him. Very sad poem