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METAPHYSICAL POETRY

METAPHYSICAL POETRY. The Whole Experience of Man: Meta=beyond; Physics=science. What is a metaphysical poetry?. Explores Intellectual Bold emotion Uses allusions—especially to philosophy Includes images from science, law, medicine, religion

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METAPHYSICAL POETRY

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  1. METAPHYSICAL POETRY The Whole Experience of Man: Meta=beyond; Physics=science

  2. What is a metaphysical poetry? • Explores • Intellectual • Bold emotion • Uses allusions—especially to philosophy • Includes images from science, law, medicine, religion • Explores: love, God, Soul, Freedom, Nature of Reality; Reason for Being

  3. CHARACTERISTICS • Lyric poems—brief but intense meditations • Striking use of wit, irony, wordplay = called METAPHYSICAL CONCEITS • Argumentative and persuasive • “affects the metaphysical and perplexes the mind” • Written in lines of unequal and varying length and rhythms that reflect unpredictable movements of an active mind

  4. METAPHYSICAL CONCEITS • Especially complex and ingenious figures of speech • A kind of METAPHOR that makes surprising connections between two seemingly dissimilar things • Used for an analytical and psychological investigation of love and life • Examples: • A lover’s tears are newly minted coins • The king’s court is a bowling alley • Lovers are holy saints • Lovers as two prongs of a compass

  5. WHO and WHEN • John Donne (The Flea) • Andrew Marvell (To His Coy Mistress) • George Herbert • Ben Johnson • Robert Herrick (To the Virgins…) • --------------------------------------------- • 1500’s-1600’s

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