Showing posts with label The Metaphysical Poets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Metaphysical Poets. Show all posts
It is the difference between the intellectual poet and the reflective poet. ....
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The Metaphysical Poets
It is the difference between the intellectual poet and the reflective poet.......- explain.
Eliot in his essay, "The Metaphysical Poets", in order to show that the metaphysical poets are not 'a digression from the main current' and they have a unified sensibility, makes a distinction between the Victorian poet(reflective) and the metaphysical poet (intellectual). According to Eliot, there is a gradual dissociation of...
and often Cowley
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Donne
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employ a device which is sometimes considered characteristically metaphysical (35-39)
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The Metaphysical Poets
Donne and often Cowley, employ a device which is sometimes considered characteristically metaphysical; the elaboration of a figure of speech to the furthest stage to which ingenuity can carry it. (35-39)
This line has been taken from Eliot's one of the major essays "The Metaphysical Poets". Eliot actually writes this essay to answer to the objection raised by Johnson about the metaphysical poets. Dr. Samuel Johnson used the term 'metaphysical'in his " The Life of Cowley". He used the term 'metaphysical' as a pejorative one....
The question is to what extent the so called metaphysical formed a school - explain.
Eliot in his essay "The Metaphysical Poets" is trying to establish that the metaphysical school of poetry is the continuation of the main stream of literature. At the very beginning of the essay Eliot says that we must admit that the term 'movement' is more preferable than 'school'. Because 'school' is a static passive classification, but 'movement' is an active dynamic term of asserting...
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