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John Donne
Title: John Donne
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 304 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
John Donne
John Donne is regarded as the forerunner of Metaphysical poets. His poems, whether cynical or idealistic, are characterized by fantastic conceits, metaphors and hyperbole. Donne¡¯s images are usually untraditional. In his poems about love he does not employ those images which are usually associated with love such as roses, beauties, moon and the like. In the first stanza of the poem Song, Donne mentions falling star, mandrake root, Devil¡¯s foot and mermaids. First …showed first 75 words of 304 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 304 total…root, hearing mermaids singing and so on, Donne satirizes bitterly that there is no true and fair woman in the world.
Although he is too biased against love, the conceits and metaphors Donne employs are novel and fantastic. In reading the poem, readers go through the emotional change from shock to puzzle to gradual understanding and finally the complete recognition and appreciation. That is exact the effect Donne wants to bring about through his conceits.
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