Discussing the political and religious poetry Milton, Marwell, Herrick

In seventeenth century we see many valuable poets who wrote about religion, politic and erotic. These poets, we have studied in the second half of this term, are: Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell and John Milton. When we read their poems we can easily see that, all of these narrators have different idea about religion, politics and erotic. Some of these writers have very strong felling about religion some of them not …

…some conflicts and tensions. We see some of them have conflict about religion and desires and some of them have some politic conflicts. As we can understand all of these writers are affected from society and traditions while they were writing their poems for example, Herrick is affected by tradition while he was writing "Affliction and The Collar" because he has some desires we see but he cannot live his desires freely because of traditions.