Metaphysical Elements

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Metaphysical Elements

Introduction

        Metaphysical deals with questions that can only be explained by science, for example, a question like does God exist. Metaphysics can cover a broad topic from religion to consciousness; however, there is no collect answer to any such question metaphysical is all about exploration and philosophy. Metaphysical is met to awake and shock the reader from his ordinary existence to question what is not questionable. One of the ways to analyze the metaphysical is to consider the thoughts and feelings clinging as you read. Writers like  Donne highly use complex, dramatic expressions, paradox, imaginary and traditional love. Compared to the previous poet, particularly Edmund Spenser. The following are examples of metaphysical in Donne’s poetry.

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           The Tittle: The Good Morrow Generally, the statement good morrow has the following meanings:  means the following day, the time following an event, and the near future. It also means a fresh morning. When combined, Donne talks about the freshness present in his future life and hope about his upcoming life. The previous life of John Donne was a waste, but the present and future life are not the same. Finally, Donne wants to forget his past life and start a new life with new passion and hope. Stanza II of “The Good Morrow” is a deep analysis of the world lovers'. There is an excellent contrast between the world of love and reality (Henry Vaughan and the Metaphysical Tradition.). Many people in the world are attached to material things of life, but in Donne’s eyes, true happiness lies within love. Other elements include the following:

           Use of imagery in “The Good Morrow” Although the poem is about the spirituality of love, there is still use of images from the myth, e.g., hemisphere, seven sleepers of the den, room, Etc. His imagination is not imaginative but supernatural. He uses real-life examples, e.g., maps and rooms, making his imagery forceful and straightforward.

       The Flea"  In the poem, the speaker shows that the flea to the young woman is trying to resist sleeping with him, and the man argues that because the flea bit him and then the woman, their blood is joined, which is almost like being joined sexually. The writer points out that the flea is not a monogamous creature, for it just moves from one host to host, sucking blood, and nobody calls it wrong or sinful. It is just doing what is in its nature (Henry Vaughan and the Metaphysical Tradition.). Therefore, if the flea’s action is innocent, there is nothing that should prevent them from having a sexual relationship. In the second stanza, he furthers his argument, trying to convince the woman that the flea is like a marriage bed where they have joined as one. The woman never speaks in the poem, but there is a suggestion that she wants to squash the flea because the speaker begs her to ‘spare’ it and compares killing the flea to killing him and herself because their lives joined in the flea.

             Symbol and Metaphor: Twickenham Garden, The speaker, is broken-hearted. The writer goes into a garden to be soothed, to receive a cure for his broken heart. Nevertheless, that is not to be so; because he also gets his worries and love into the garden, and they will not allow him to heal. The garden, which was initially full of glory, was now ‘benighted’ by the ‘winter’(Henry Vaughan and the Metaphysical Tradition.), which means the woman’s broken heart made the garden seem a sinister place. He felt the trees were laughing and mocking him. So he wants to be some senseless piece of the garden so that he can escape from this vicious cycle.

             The poem’s tone is sad and bitter, sad at the beginning and bitter at the end, but never turns hostile towards the lady who is alluded to inverse. Hence, the rhyme of the poem is unconventional. Nevertheless, as if to make this irregularity a regularity, the poet uses the same rhyme scheme in all three stanzas. The rhyme scheme is ABABBCCDD.

Conclusion

        It is noted that the use of metaphysical in poetry and supernatural elements like imaginary. Symbols, metaphors, tone, and rhyme in a poet are essential, as Donne has shown in this poem. He has used those elements to create humor and the poem’s plot to give that poem a flow and a meaning. Metaphysical has been used to deliver what the writer intended to say. A phrase like Twickenham Garden has been used to show how the writer is heartbroken and how he even fears the garden so that he cannot be laughed at to overcome the sorrows of being heartbroken. Flea has been used as a symbol of Marange that the woman should allow sexual relationship since the blood is one, the flea has connected them our there have been united to one.

              Another phrase, The Good Morrow, is highly employed to contrast the writer’s early life and present life. The past is a waste of great sorrows and many other problems, but saying The Good Morrow also means a fresh morning. When combined, Donne talks about the freshness present in his future life and hope about his upcoming life. The previous life of John Donne was a waste and full of sorrows, but the present and future life are not the same. Finally, Donne wants to forget his past life and start a new life with new passion and hope.

Works

GUILFORD JR, CHARLES FRANKLIN. Henry Vaughan and the Metaphysical Tradition. Northern Illinois University,2016.

Toliver, Harold E. Lyric provinces in the English Renaissance. The Ohio State University Press,2015.