I found Donne’s Canonization quite exciting and different thematically from the other sonnets we have read so far. While others display affection and courtship, The Canonization is interesting as the intended audience isn’t his lover. His lover acts as an equal party to the speaker in the poem, which, compared to other sonnets, displays a far more accurate sense of equality. He also compares their love to a phoenix, a mythical creature that is said to be male and female: “And we in us find th’eagle and the dove,/ The phoenix riddle hath more wit.” While I feel that other poems, especially sonnets, of the time, tend to promote the assertive male archetype, this one goes about it in a far different manner. This sonnet certainly doesn’t lack that archetype; it’s not directed towards his love, as most are, but instead requires it towards other men and relationships. I found this overall switch in audiences, paired with the unification between the speaker and his lover, to be revolutionary compared to the other sonnets.