John Donne

John Donne was the leading enthusiast of a style of poetry known as metaphysical poetry, which flourished in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This specific type of poetry features elaborate conceits and surprising symbols, wrapped up in original, challenging language structures, with learned themes that draw heavily on eccentric chains of reasoning. His jarring, unusual meters; his often eccentric metaphors and his process of oblique reasoning are all characteristics of the metaphysicals. Firstly, …

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