Key Features of Metaphysical Poetry
- Created by: javi95
- Created on: 01-03-14 14:32
View mindmap
- Metaphysical Poetry
- Use of Conceits
- Dramatic Opening Line
- Spiritual defined as physical and vice versa
- Idea which proclaim dominance and superiority of mind over material
- Do not conform to laws of the physical and reality
- Carnal (profane) and divine (sacred) love
- Paradoxical Imagery
- Inventive and Subtle Style
- Dramatic, with abrupt aggressive opening but modulating tones.
- Style – concise, succinct, epigrammatic
- Time and eternity (finite and infinite)
- Body and soul (corporal and spiritual)
- Emotion (passion) and Reason (logic)
- Antithethis
Comments
No comments have yet been made