Below are examples of two different perspectives on the same topic. Select the perspective that you think is most correct and, in a short paragraph, explain why you feel that way, based on readings from this course as well as your own experiences. Be sure to use specific examples or textual evidence to support your perspective. Once you have completed your post, comment on a classmate’s post to build on his or her ideas, pose questions, or politely agree or disagree and explain why. Discussion Prompt: In this lesson, two of the poems you have read differ on their views of love. Which view about love is correct, in your opinion? Why? From “The Sunne Rising” by John Donne: Princes doe but play us; compar’d to this, All honor’s mimique; All wealth alchimie. Thou sunne art halfe as happy’as wee, 25 In that the world’s contracted thus; Thine age askes ease, and since thy duties bee To warme the world, that’s done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art every where; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare. From “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare: Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.