“I love you”. No other sequence of words has this much power; these words have the power to strengthen a bond, weaken a relationship, ruin a friendship, or bring two people closer together. The concept of love is confusing and we have struggled to understand it for centuries, everything from the Greek goddess Aphrodite to today's romantic comedies have attempted to understand and explain it. The theme of love is popular in Donne's early poems. His understanding of love from the perspective of a Protestant preacher speaks volumes about anti-Christian sentiments and the scientific revolution of the 17th century. A close analysis of Donne's poem, "Love's Alchemy" and the film "When Harry Met Sally" reveals the force behind Donne's idea that sex is the ultimate goal of relationships and that true love is physical. In the first two lines of "Love's Alchemy", Alchemy'Donne launches his attack on platonic love when he compares it to the unsuccessful results of alchemy. The words “mine of love deeper” (1) create the association between platonic love and alchemy. The mine represents both the physical mine in which base metals are found, and on the other hand the spiritual mine in which we find love. For Donne, the idea of ​​Platonic love is as worthless as the metals mined – and just as the alchemist cannot turn it into gold, the Platonist will never turn his idea into true love. The depth metaphor implies a direction inward, primarily toward the soul. The “centered happiness” (2) of the following verse reinforces the idea of ​​an inner hollowing; the center of the soul is where platonists believe love is found. Another interpretation of the mine demonstrates how deep it is necessary to dig to love; since alchemy never produces gold, the...... middle of paper......in this way could represent how rampant this notion of love is in society and that it is a enemy against whom we must unite. The speaker also warns of the inevitable loss of these qualities if one pursues platonic love “for the phantom wages of this vain bubble? (14) The use of the word "pay" equates the pursuit of platonic love with a crime in which the guilty party must pay a fine. The image of the bubble, on the other hand, represents fragility and transparency, meaning that these are characteristics of platonic love. The concept of platonic love as fragile and transparent is also present in "When Harry Met Sally". At first, when Harry tells his friend about his platonic relationship with Sally, his friend is not convinced. This reaction is justified because towards the end of the film, the platonic relationship dissipates and they have sex which eventually leads to marriage..