john donne as a metaphysical poet/metaphysical poetry of john donne

 

john donne as a metaphysical poet/metaphysical poetry of john donne 

John Donne as a Metaphysical Poet

The term metaphysical is based on Dante's, Goethe's, and Yeats' metaphysical poetry. As a result, "metaphysical" refers to poetry that is intellectual or touches on philosophy. His art is characterized by a amalgamation of thought and emotion. His use of conceit is both humorous and weird at times. His exaggerations are ridiculous, and his contradictions are astounding. He combines fact and fiction in a way that astounds us. He fills his poems with educated and often enigmatic illusions; however, some of his poems are metaphysical in the literal sense, philosophical and contemplative, and deal with spiritual or soul-related issues.

Conceit is a component in Donne's metaphysical poetry that lends it a unique flavor. Some of his ideas are absurd, perplexing, and intriguing. He brings together a variety of interests to create something beautiful.

“When thou weep’st, unkindly kinde,
My lifes blood doth decay.”

 His strategy is centered on logic and argumentation. He relates his emotional experiences to his academic experiences. He ponders fidelity in a woman but concludes that finding a faithful lady is impossible.

“No where
Lives a woman true, and faire.”

His theories and ideas are incomprehensible to most people. His views are beyond the comprehension of the average person, and they are a mix of intellect and passion. In "The Message," he asks his sweetheart to keep his heart and eyes since they may have learned certain illnesses from her. But then he wants her to return them so that he might laugh at her and see her die when someone else proves as deceitful to her as she has to the poet.

Donne was a self-conscious artist who wanted to brag about his abilities. . He uses imagery from the distant past in his love poetry. He makes biblical references, such as the Crucifixion, in his holy poems.

“Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?”
“Get with child a mandrake roote.”
“But that Christ on this Crosse, did rise and fall.”

He does not use a rhythm that is emotionally stimulating. His poetry is at a low ebb. Even his love poetry do not arouse our emotions. Even while separating in a "Song," he is reasonable in his reasoning that he is not parting because of his beloved's exhaustion.

“But since that I
Must dye ……deaths to dye;”

 Donne's poetry, like metaphysical poetry, is densely packed. In

“The Good Morrow”, he says 

“For love, all love of other sights controules.”

Arguments, persuasion, shock, and surprise abound in his poetry. He employed mathematical terminology and scientific to introduce roughness in his poems instead of traditional romantic words, such as 'cosmographers,' 'trepidation of the spheres,' 'stifle twin compasses,' and so on.

His writing style is great, crisp, and he employs harsh language. He resists the traditional romantic, gentle, and diffused approach.

His poetry are full with paradoxical statements. In "The Anniversaries," he addresses the issue of body and soul, the person and the universe in "The Sunna Rising," and deprivation and actuality in "A Noctrunall." He discusses the Crucification, ransom, sects / schisms, religion, and other topics in his holy poems.

 In “Love’s Growth” the poet’s love seems to have increased in spring. But now it cannot increase because it was already infinite. And yet it has increased:

“No winter shall abate the sring’s increase.”

Donne opposes the Elizabethans' adoption of the Petrarchan poetic tradition. Emotions were the source of Elizabethan poetry. He was a staunch opponent of platonic idealism, as well as extensive description and decoration. In poetry, he was precise and focused, whereas the Elizabethans used a lot of words.

Four major conditions existed in the seventeenth century: colloquial diction,  logical structure, and decorative and unconventional imagination, personal tone, all of which were present in Donne.

To sum it up, he's a seventeenth-century poet rather than a metaphysical poet. There are various characteristics in his poetry that set him apart from other seventeenth-century poets, such as the fact that he is a monarch and writes in a more conversational style than any other. Other seventeenth-century poets combine emotions and intellect by defining emotional experience through intellectual comparisons, for example. He continues to write in the style of seventeenth-century poets.