Metaphysical poem

                             John Donne

  
              John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the church of England. John Donne was born into a Catholic family in 1572,during a strong anti-Catholic period in England. 
            Metaphysical means dealing with the relationship between spirit to matter and the ultimate nature or reality. The tearm metaphysical poets was coined by the critic samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th- century English poets. 
          Highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression.                                                                        
 
          Characteristics :

→ Striking imagery

→ Far fetched ideas 

→ Full of logic and reasoning

→ Theme like love is experimented like science.

  

   

Name of Metaphysical poets :

→  John Donne

→  George Herbert

→  Andrew marvell

→  Henry Vaughan

→ Richard Crashaw

→ Katharine Philips

→ Richard Leigh

Metaphysical poem :

 

Analysis of poem :

              The poem is on the surface, about death and the parting of two souls. But the "parting of two souls" can also be interpreted as a physical distance taken between two people perhaps one is travelling away from their lover etc..

                  The Expiration Analysis John Donne critical analysis of poem, Characters are archetypes. The idea of death also links to matters of a sexual nature, " little death". "Double dead",