expression, which also had to fit metre, rhyme, and stanza schemes. Donne employs.
invented complicated stanza forms, testing his skills by including in them everything.
he wanted to say - conceits, puns, enthymemes etc. This can be seen in The Sunne.
Rising.
Compression, brevity, and a certain deliberate knottiness were part of a poetic.
fashion, called "strong lines,"˜ lines of verse that were deliberately pithy, and.
sometimes jerky and rough to the ear. Thus, analogy, close-textured argument, word.
play and pointed brevity were all aspects of ".
Features of the Metaphysical poets:.
- Combine passionate feeling with logical argument.
- Wit and conceit:ഊ1. Exaggerated and vast imagery.
2. Stretch of argument.
3. Unrealistic, bizarre metaphors.
4. Departure from convention.
5. Exciting verse.
6. Irrelevant, blasphemous apostrophes and imperatives.
7. Intellectual humour.
8. Double entendre.
9. Ironies, satire.
10. Borders on the ridiculous.
- Metre:.
1. Colloquial and aggressive.
2. First person.
3. Conversational.
4. Dramatic.
5. Questioning.
6. Follows natural speech.
7. Transforms confines of iambic pentameter form of sonnets.
- Strong lined.
- Violent changes in tone:.
1. Pathos quite common.
2. Wide variety of rhythmic patterns.
- Wide-ranging emotionally.
- Earnest and challenging, even when appearing casual, never trivial.
- Struggle between spiritual and bodily impulses.
- New use of old poetic forms:.
1. Aubade.
2. Sonnet.
3. Elegy.
4. Valediction.
- Use of syllogism (illogicality of argument).
DONNE.
Life.
Donne had roots going deep into medieval Catholicism, born to well-to-do Roman.
Catholic parents. He lived in Elizabethan England, a thriving, vital Renaissance state,.
yet also a time of religious turmoil. He was a man engaged in the intellectual andഊreligious conflicts of his time, energised with vast ideas and imagination, making.
sense of the disorder.
When it became clear that preferments would be open to him only if he entered Holy.
Orders, Donne was ordained in the Anglican church in 1615.
