Metaphysical poets

As metaphysical poetry (English metaphysical poetry ) is called a flow in English poetry of the Baroque in the 17th century.

Your representative one with an interest in philosophical questions, which metaphysically here is not to be understood as the adjective to metaphysics, but rather an arbitrary negative connotations description of the issue poet by one of their main critics, Samuel Johnson, in his book The Lives of the Poets ( 1744) has sprung. Most Popular Topics of the ' metaphysical poets ' are love and religion, which are often treated in the form of an argument, talking to an unfaithful lover, with God or allegorical figures such as death, or even talking to himself. Word Games ( puns ), oxymorons and paradoxes, but especially metaphysical conceits - far-fetched, especially sophisticated metaphors - are stylistic devices that are found particularly often in the metaphysical poetry. Elliptical syntax, metrical irregularity and a more colloquial expression are further attributes of the works of metaphysical poets. The witty character of these conceits essentially consists in that first ludicrous comparisons appear conclusive at the end completely logical and in itself, whereby the metaphysical poets ultimately a very positive rating is given.

As the main representative and father of metaphysical poetry in general John Donne is considered the foremost in the poems The Flea, where he equates the alliance of love a blutsaugendem Flea and A Valediction by his famous metaphysical conceits: Forbidding Mourning, in which a Loving couple with a compass compares, as particularly witty (German witty ) is considered. Another characteristic of metaphysical poetry is the conscious differentiation from Elizabethan poetry, or to Petrarchism, the major literary movements of the time, which is expressed in the criticism of social norms and values.

Crucially, however, that the movement of the metaphysical poets and the criticism contained in it, is not considered an official counter-movement to the prevailing literary trends. On the contrary, the first metaphysical poems were presented exclusively in private circles and were particularly during the beginnings of John Donne, not intended for a wider audience. The importance attached to this poetry today is based primarily on the retrospective interpretation.

The most important metaphysical poets were:

In the 20th century metaphysical poetry was particularly taken by the poets of the English- Modern modeled; TS Eliot acknowledged this influence in 1921 in an essay.

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