Cheese Dogs

"The cheese dog" is a witty poem like "The monkey," but in this poem, Danne uses satire instead of conceit to communicate his message. Danne intentionally creates a speaker who does not share his opinion of love. This speaker can love any woman as long as she is not loyal. He boasts of the many different types of women that he can love, no matter how different they are from each other. There is one …

…of Venus is similar to Donne in that there is a distinct difference between what they are saying and what they truly mean. This is another example of Danne's use of educated intellect to strengthen the meaning of his poem as he did in "A monkey: Forbidding Mourning" with the reference to Ptolemaic spheres. This satirical poem expresses the cruelty and indifference of people like the speaker who are unfaithful to the ones they love.