Features of Metaphysical Poetry in Forbidding Mourning
John Donne’s poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” is a prime example of metaphysical poetry, a poetic style that emerged in …
John Donne’s poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” is a prime example of metaphysical poetry, a poetic style that emerged in …
Metaphysical poetry is not regarded as a genre of poetry. In fact the main poets of this group didn’t read …
The term “Metaphysical” was first applied to poetry by Dr. Johnson who borrowed it from Dryden’s phrase “he affects the …
The end of the Elizabethan age saw a new development of the poetic language which reached the maturity in the …
“No Man is an Island” is a famous line from “Meditation XVII,” part of the “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions” written …
Are you ready to dive into the uncharted waters of “English literature prose and poetry”? Imagine uncovering a treasure trove …
All things counter, original, spare, strange Whatever is fickle, freckled (Who knows how?) With swift, slow, sweet, sour, adazzle, dim, …
Expl. (1) The world is charged with the grandeur of god. It will flame out like shining from shook foil; …
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born at St. Louis and was educated at Harvard University. In 1914, he settled in London, …
It has been accurately referred to as the T.S. Eliot era in both literary criticism and poetry/poetic theater throughout the …