How can the poet and his beloved be canonized for love John Donne s - The Canonization published in his collection Poems is a wonderful love poem In this poem the speaker poet is an aged lover He talks about how deeply he and his beloved love each other The speaker also says that poetry will make their love immortal and canonized People will worship their love like saints Pure and Passionate Love At the beginning of the poem the speaker says his love is pure and harmless His love does not harm anyone His love does not sink ships destroy farms or spread diseases So people should not disturb or insult this aged lover The speaker also says he and his beloved love each other very passionately He compares themselves to tapers candles flies and even a phoenix They die for love and are born again like the phoenix