John Donne As A Biographyful Poet Of The Metaphysical Poet

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Biography and cultural influences John Donne, an outstanding English poet of the Metaphysical school, is usually considered the greatest loved poet in the English language. The metaphysical poets are known for their capacity to frighten the reader and persuade new aspects through paradoxical images, inventive syntax and imagery using a metaphor known as conceit. John Donne was born in London, England in 1572. He was born in a Catholic family, during that time England was facing a strong anti-Catholic period. Donne’s father was an affluent London merchant. His mother perhaps, Elizabeth Heywood was the grand-niece of Catholic martyr Thomas more, he was an English lawyer and renaissance humanist he wrote “utopia” published in …show more content…

(No man is an island) (Donne, adnax.com) He said his final sermon at the Whitehall Palace on February 25th, 1631, a sermon which became notorious as “Death’s Duell”, John Donne died on 31st March. He was known for his spirited, fascinating technique. “The Good-Morrow” was published in 1633 and is a collection of his “Songs and Sonnets”. The poem was written when Donne was studying law at Lincoln’s Inn , it is one of his first poems. It is most referred as a sonnet, although the poem does not follow the most typical rhyming scheme of such works, which is a 14-line poem. “The Good-Morrow” is composed about an awaking lover and describes his thoughts as he wakes up next to his love. I WONDER by my troth, what thou and

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