這學期我修的英史剛好有介紹到John Donne和Andrew Marvell這兩位詩人，坦白說第
一次唸到Donne早期的"The Flea"、"Song"、"The Indifferent"這幾首詩的時候，確實會令很多
女生(包括我)反感，覺得Donne把女性給物化或是描述的床景太過露骨、輕視女生的貞操等
等(在他有名的Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed裡甚至有基於當時帝國主義的概
念而將女性的身體比喻為充滿寶藏、等待被征服的美國)。
<The Indifferent>
I can love both fair and brown;
Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays;
Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays;
Her whom the country form'd, and whom the town;
Her who believes, and her who tries;
Her who still weeps with spongy eyes,
And her who is dry cork, and never cries.
I can love her, and her, and you, and you;
I can love any, so she be not true.
Will no other vice content you?
Will it not serve your turn to do as did your mothers?
Or have you all old vices spent and now would find out others?
Or doth a fear that men are true torment you?
O we are not, be not you so;
Let me