We explored the contrast between the 17th Century rationalism of Donne's poetry with the poetry of the British Romantic movement. On the board, I outlined the characteristics of the Romantic genre-emotion, imagination, and reverence for nature. We then studied two poems by Blake noting the use of imaginative symbolism and emotion. We discussed the poems' tone and structure as well as their underlying question: Why and how did God "dare" create evil? Nina did well identifying the symbolism of the lamb and the contrasting symbol of the " tiger" and further discussed the metaphor comparing of God to a blacksmith . We then turned back to Donne's sonnet on death and I explained the use apostrophe and how this device complements the poet's personification of death .We again recognized the question and resolution structure of the sonnet. We examined the use of paradox, typical of Donne, and I explained the paradox - "death thou shall die." We then critically noted the distinct styles of Blake and Donne ,specifically Donne's academic intellectual approach to death versus Blake's imaginative emotive response to evil , characteristic of the Romantic genre.