Metaphysical Poetry Of John Donne Research Paper

According to professor Grierson, Donne’s life like his poetry, is a tormented one both his life and poetry bear traces of the complexity and tension of his mood and temper. His passionate youth, his aspiring middle age, his errors and conceits of taste, his uncertain approach to religion, his piety, are all aspects of his life which find a course in his poetry.
John Donne was born in London in 1572. He came of a rich family of Catholics. On his father’s side he belonged to an old Welsh family and on his mother’s side to the heywoods and sir Thomas more’s family. His education could not be continued in oxford and cambridge because of his religion. He died on 31st of march 1631.
John Donne is credited with the honor of being the poet who broke the petrarchan tradition in England and created a new mode of poetry. John Donne is acknowledged as the master of metaphysical poetry and is admired

It was Dryden who first used the word, “metaphysical’ in connection with Donne’s poetry and wrote “Donne affects the metaphysics” and Dr. Johnson confirmed the judgment of Dryden. Ever since the word “Metaphysical” has been used for Donne and his followers. Donne’s poetry may be called “metaphysical” only in as for as its technique or style is concerned. It is heavily overloaded with “conceits”, which may be defined as the excessive use of over elaborated similes and metaphor drawn from the most far-fetched, remote and unfamiliar sources. But according to Grierson “Donne is metaphysical not only by virtue of his scholasticism, but by his deep reflective interest in the experiences of which his poetry is the expression, psychological curiosity with which he writes of love and