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METAPHYSICAL POETRY
Metaphysical poetry is sometimes used in the broad sense of phylosophical, and it is used to designated the world of the 17th century. in the sense of employing
similar metod and of being actuated by spirit of revolt against romantical convension
and the elizabetian sonnet.
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tendence to word psigolical analisy of the emotion of love and religious, there
use of metaphysical consite, and the extreme to wich they sometimes carry the
tecnic risalting: prequency, obscurite, rough verse and straid immagines, the
caratheristic of best metaphysical poetry: logical element in a tecnic tending
intending to express honesty, poet sense of complessite and contradiction of
life; the metaphysical poet is: intelletual, analitic, psicological,
disiliousionist, bold, and religious devotion.
the immagrey
is drow from common place or the remote, actual life or erudite sources, the
figure itself often being elaborated with self conscious ingenuity, the form is
frequently that of an argoument with poet' s love, god, or with himself. the
most important metaphysical poet is john donne.