What is Metaphysical Poetry?
Metaphysical Poetry is a type of poetry that becomes very famous in the twenty-first century. Even before that ‘Metaphysicalilty’ was a celebrated style of poem writing.
Samuel Johnson first brings the idea of metaphysics in the seventeenth century.
In the biography of the poet Abraham Cowley, Johnson first used the metaphysical conceits. He is not only affiliated with the concept of metaphysical poetry but other poets also used metaphysical conceits in their poems.
Mainly metaphysical poems of John Donne is famous for Metaphysical conceits.
What is Metaphysical Poetry?
Mainly it is a type of poem where the poets use some points that usually not used to be given.
In metaphysical poetry, there will be something beyond reality, and beyond of physicality (physical bond).
If we read metaphysical poems will definitely feel that the poems are written without taking care of the world system.
Metaphysical Conceits
Metaphysical Conceits are one of the relevant structures of poetry.
It is being taken place in the poem when the poet takes a far-fetched reference for opening a scene.
‘Metaphysical conceit’ is an analogy between spiritual components and the physical world that are separate from each other.
We can give an example from John Donne’s ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’ where he says,
“If they be two, they are two so,
As stiff twin compasses are two”
Here, by these lines the poet expressing his love with ‘stiff twin’.
So a far-fetched reference is taken that is why these lines are producing ‘Metaphysical conceits’. It is a primary source of making Metaphysical poetry.
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