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Metaphysical poetryHighly intellectualized poetry written chiefly in 17th-century England. Less concerned with expressing feeling than with analyzing it, Metaphysical poetry is marked by bold and ingenious conceits (e.g., metaphors drawing sometimes forced parallels between apparently dissimilar ideas or things), complex and subtle thought, frequent use of paradox, and a dramatic directness of language, the rhythm of which derives from living speech. John Donne was the leading Metaphysical poet; others include George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, and Abraham Cowley. |
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| It focuses on Bearing, an accomplished if emotionally brittle literary professor specializing in the metaphysical poetry of John Donne, whose grapples with the meaning of life and death, as one character puts it, ``made Shakespeare sound like a Hallmark card. An epilogue descends from metaphysical poetry to social history, as two accounts of women on their deathbeds are chosen to demonstrate the reality of atheistic doubt in the Renaissance. By uniting violent and disturbing imagery with metaphysical poetry and traditional homecraft through the visual metaphor of a modified prayer banner, Dill suggests that Dickinson's words are the muted prayers of a victim. |
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