Metaphysical Poetry Characteristics
🎯Characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry 🌷Dr Mukesh Pareek 🌷15 NET, 3 JRF, 2 M. Phil 🌷Expert of Experts 👉Join online /offline Classes for BA/MA/NET /JRF /pre Ph. D 🌷Contact 9828402032 🎯(1) Dramatic manner and direct tone of speech is one of the main characteristics of metaphysical poetry. In the starting line of the poem “The Canonization” – there is given a dramatic starting – “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love”. 🎯(2) Concentration is an important quality of metaphysical poetry in general and Donne’s poetry is particular. In his all poems, the reader is held to one idea or line of argument. Donne’s poems are brief and closely woven. In “The Extasie”, the principal argument is that the function of man as a man is being worthily performed through different acts of love. He continues with the theme without digression. For instance, “As ‘twixt two equal armies, Fate Suspends uncertain victorie, Our souls, (which to advance their state, Were gone out,) hung ‘twixt