AIR AND ANGELS by John Donne

CRITICAL APPRECIATIONThis is a poem of love and has little to do with air and angels. The poet is fed up with the Platonic idea of love—love as something holy and spiritual. He is also not happy with the worship of the beloved and the admiration of her beauty which the Petrarchan poets did. He realizes the hollowness and hypocrisy of the idealization of love. Love demands something concrete. It