"When by thy scorn, O murderess, I am dead,
And that thou thinkst thee free
From all solicitation from me,
Then shall my ghost come to thy bed..."
John Donne's poem is about a ghost. The ghost of a man is haunting the woman that killed him. The imagery creates a vindictive tone of the poem. I feel like the ghost is trying to get back at the women that killed him by haunting her. In the quote above, the speaker is saying that his ex thinks she is free of him, but she is not. He will haunt her in the night and make her feel guilty for hurting him.
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