Metaphysical Poetry

Meta forcible Poetry

This is a very broad term, but it joins together a number of seventeenth century poets, most worthy among them John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughn and Abraham Cowley

By itself, metaphysical means relations with the relationship between spirit to matter or the ultimate nature of reality. The Metaphysical poets are obviously not the that poets to deal with this subject matter, so there are a number of other qualities involved as well:

* drill of ordinary speech mixed with puns, paradoxes and conceits (a paradoxical metaphor create a shock to the reader by the strangeness of the objects compared; virtually examples: livers and a compass, the soul and timber, the body and mind)
* The exaltation of wit, which in the 17th century meant a nimbleness of thought; a reason of fancy (imagination of a fantastic or whimsical nature); and originality in figures of speech
* Abstruse terminology often drawn from science or law
* Often poems are presented in the form of an argument
* In love poetry, the metaphysical poets often draw on ideas from Renaissance Neo-Platonism to direct the relationship between the soul and body and the union of lovers souls
* They as well as try to show a psychological realism when describing the tensions of love.





Neo-Platonism: This comes from the doctrines of Plato who argues that since the physical realism is merely an imperfect imitation of the divine sample, the poet representing the world is imitating an imitation, and thus creating something that stood at least two removes from the truth.

This argument is answered in at least two ways:

1. By Aristotle: Because the poet imitates worldwide rather than particular ideas, his work is more philosophical than history.
2- By the Neo-Platonists: This group suggests that the poet is attempting to imitate not the world, but the live archetype itself.

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