Metaphysical poetry

 The metaphysical poetry 

General features /characteristics 

A group of poet emerged in the second half of 16th century.  Whose poetry is identify as the 'metaphysical poetry.' It was Dr. Samuel Johnson a classicist of the Neoclassical Age.  Who made the poetry of donne and his school. As the metaphysical poetry Johnson use this term wild written about the life of Abraham Cowley  in his biographical work with the title 'Lives of the most eminent  English poets' (1779-81).  Dr. Johnson want to criticize the poetry of Donne and his followers by used the term 'metaphysical poetry. ' But with passing off time the same term become the term of a appraisal for there poetry.  Dr. Jonson's has pass one remarkable comment start that poetry of metaphysical poet stood a trial of their finger but failed in trial of the ears. What Dr. Johnson says that there is not musical and rhymes in there poetry. 

The  metaphysical poetry that John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew marvel, made a conscientious attempt to army form the previous poets so that there poetry me be noticed by the readers.  One critic's Helen c. White mentions that, 

 "It was a demand of time for the metaphysical poets to differ from the poets of previous age. Had they continued writing poetry in the same manner, just like the former poets they would have been rejected by the readers. "

Due, to new learning and reformation of the Elizabethan age. The intellectual of the reader had gone upward and so metaphysical poet to be intellectual in the written of their poetry. 

The best was for the metaphysical to differ from the pervious poet and to be intellectual in the writing of their poetry was to use far factual images and concepts their tried to avoid use images from those fields which where thickly associated with the theme of their poetry. 

In order to experience either love or their fame Christianity the bought their imagies for differ fields just like, biological, architecture, agricultural, geometry, geography, and even political science. This gives unique identity to their poetry a number example can be given about  how they brought images form distant remot fields the first example is of John Donne made use of a biological image_ The flea foe the experience love in has poem the title of poem is 'The Flea.' George Herbert made use of an image form the fields of mechanical engineering for the expression of faith in Christianity the example is a poem with title 'The Pulley' is an image of mechanical engineering but in this poem that image is used state that recentness also pulley which gives a consciousness contact between the creator the creation. Andrew marvel made use of geometrical images for the expression of love the example is 'To His Coy Mistress ' in beirf all the metaphysical poet made extensive uses of far factual images in their poetry. 

Highlight one remarkable feature of the metaphysical poetry but Johnson stay that their poetry stood a trial of their finger but not of the ears that means there is no music in the poetry which the wrote there is no rhythm to be found in the poetry of the metaphysical poet.