Elements of Metaphysical Poetry

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Metaphysical poetry was a literary movement which took place from around 1600 to 1650. Shakespeare was one of the main influence of these artists. It was not a school : they did not define themselves as metaphysical poets. There are common points between them, but they do not claim to be part of one single school. There is also no definitive list of metaphysical poets, but one is always present : John Donne. Metaphysical poetry is therefore a blurry term designating an heterogeneous class of artists, which sometimes only applies to a certain part of an artist's corpus of works.

2006

1. Three other elements of poetry are rhyme scheme, meter (ie. regularrhythm) and word sounds (like alliteration). These are sometimes collectively called sound play because they take advantage of the performative, spoken nature of poetry. Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds. Poetry has perhaps always lay in some men's hearts. Perhaps, as seen from some of the evidence we have discovered in our times, even primitive man held close to him the origins of poetry. He had, for example, the pristine sky above him filled at night with such marvelous stars, such supernumerary lanterns and sparkling bits of sky, all suspended by who knew what, right in the middle of the overwhelming darkness and space of the night-yes, right in the middle of that stunning vacuum and depth which seemed to go out deeper and deeper and forever. These sensational ideas and thoughts perhaps ran through the inexpert mind of the primordial being hundreds of thousands of years ago, when man was not even man yet, and when man was just on the evolutionary machinery and path of becoming what he has been since about ten or twenty thousand years ago. These were surely the wonderments which captivated his mind and attention when outdoors at night. They must have been truly marvelous sights to look at in those times. Things have changed since then, and yet if we just take time when we are away from the city, or maybe even when we are in our own back yard, if we just look above us in total

IIUC Studies, 2009

Abstract: The language, used by Metaphysical poets is highly evocative and infused with multi-dimensional meaning. It demands comprehension and sensitivity on the part of the reader to grasp out the inner aspect of a poem. Love, being a universal feeling gets expression ...

The 17 th century is known as Restoration Period and is considered as the age of dualism. There are two major schools of poetry: Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry. In the early 17 th century poetics, the style of the poets used has changed, and revolution in form and content resulted in freer poems than the sonnets. The poets preferred to write with an ordinary language. The duality in the themes also was important, and both secular and religious poems were penned.

Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2016

One of the factors in the popularity of Michael Swan's poetry is a unique combination of a comparatively simple form and deep, subtle meanings that even an inexperienced reader cannot but sense. In linguistics, the phenomenon is dubbed implicitness. In Michael Swan's poetic texts, implicit meanings are generated through the violation of the maxims of the cooperative principle (conversational implicature) and/or through the use of specific techniques: simplicity of outward form, tropes, irony, attention to detail, contrast and opposition, repetition, punch line, the effect of the author's presence in the text or distancing from the content.

This article attempts to highlight some major qualities of poetry, basic modes of expression in poetry and its features. A number of poetic lines from multifarious poems composed by varied poets have been presented as a sample to discern the diverse qualities of English poetry. The major objective of this article is to familiarize the readers with the qualities of poetry for pleasure and better understanding of its themes and intended messages. Presentation, illustration and explanation of poetic lines that hint at the main qualities of poetry of English are executed as a method for discerning the major qualities of poetry. This article is considered to be useful to those who are interested in studying English poetry. It is concluded that better understanding of qualities of poetry leads the readers to the better understanding of poetry.

2021

There is common preservation that the term "metaphysical" is utilized to portray a gathering of seventeenth-century English artists, who wrote in a specific way affected by, or in response to, works by John Donne. The chose not many related as such are known as the metaphysical artists, and their works marked as "metaphysical poetry". Precisely what the term metaphysical refers to, or what does it define this aspect requires some explanation. As indicated by the Cambridge Dictionary, metaphysical poetry identifies with the piece of theory that is tied in with getting presence and information"; while theory then again, is "the affective reason in viewing things with the aspect of the present reality and presence. Subsequently, by suggestion, however, till this day there is no fully effective definition of metaphysical poetry, as it requires a variety of characteristics which will be presented in this paper along with the brief history behind the metaphys...

2017

This paper attempts a stylistic study of a poem. It targets to unveil the deeper underpinnings of semanticity in condensed literary pieces, particularly in poetry, as a consequence of the style employed by an author. Among other findings, the study uncovered the peculiar use of lexis and the features embedded in such peculiar use. It brings to the fore, the heavy use of deviation and parallelism in drumming home the theme of the poem. And finally, a fundamental literary feature used which is worthy of note and which the study has clearly drawn attention to in the analysis, is the foregrounding of the entire literary piece, which gives it a unique outlook. On the surface, one might not notice the effect of this literary technique but the study has meticulously pointed this out. Article visualizations: