as Something Holy Before Donne poets praised the beauty of the beloved by using beautiful images of nature like roses or sunrises But in The Canonization Donne shows love in a completely new way In this poem the speaker is an aged lover He says his love is pure spiritual and holy He says that their pure love will make them saints of love They will be canonized made saints because of their pure love As he says All shall approve Us canonized for Love Here Donne shows love as a holy thing like religion This idea is very new Donne does not praise beauty he praises the spiritual power of love This spiritual view of love was unique in Donne s time Dramatic Style Logical Arguments and Wit Donne also brings novelty in love poetry through his dramatic style logical arguments and wit The Canonization begins with this line For God s sake hold your tongue and let me love This opening is dramatic Here the aged speaker is talking directly to someone who is criticizing him for loving This argumentative tone is unusual in love poems The speaker argues that his love harms no one His sighs do not drown ships his tears do not flood fields and his passion does not cause diseases He asks What merchant s ships have my sighs drowned Nothing is harmed because of his deep love So people should mind their own business and let him love This is wit because these arguments are clever and funny This use of logic and wit was completely new in love poetry Use of Conceit Donne s most famous contribution is his use of conceits A conceit is a strange and far-fetched comparison between two very different things For example Donne compares the lovers to saints The speaker believes that their pure love will make them saints of love People would pray to them and ask a model of their true love to follow In the third stanza the lovers are compared to Phoenix Phoenix is a mythical bird that dies and rises again from its own ashes He says he and his loved are like the phoenix The phoenix We two being one are it This comparison means that even if the lovers die their love cannot Their love is eternal Before Donne no other poet compared love to such surprising images These bold comparisons give Donne s poetry a fresh and modern style Blend of Passion and Thought The blend of passion and thought was a new quality Donne used in his love poem In The Canonization Donne s speaker argues that even if their love story is not written in history books their love story will live through sonnets and poems He says We ll build in sonnets pretty rooms This argument is clever and thoughtful but it also comes from a deep passion for love Clearly Donne breaks away from traditional love poetry in The Canonization He does not talk about physical beauty or sweet emotions Instead he presents love as spiritual powerful clever and holy He uses dramatic arguments strong wit and surprising comparisons For these reasons Donne is truly an unconventional love poet