Kimdria Baker Fowler Senior LA I The 17th and 18th Centuries Essay Outline 20 October 2014 The 17th and18th Centuries Essay Outline Throughout the historic times of the 17th and 18th century many poets begun to write metaphysical poetry. They begin to turn away from the standard neoclassicism writing. Many poets begun to write metaphysical and or philosophical issues which consist of two poetic devices such as conceits and paradoxes. Poets begun to write metaphysical poetry because they lost faith in the power of human reasons during the eclipse of the enlightenment era in the 1700s. The age of reason came to an end and a new literary age came in the 1800s.The new literary age lead to many poets to change their tone of their writing such as …show more content…
Using the poem Song he uses the theme of love. John Donne compares love to time and how time goes by with life itself. John Donne says, “More wings and spurs than he./ O how feeble is man’s power./That is good fortune fall,/ Cannot add another hour./Nor a lost hour recall!” (Lines 16-20). The speaker frequently express how when time files times are good and fortune and no one can add another hour. When saying this he is relating to life when anyone fall in love and times are good the times goes by …show more content…
John Donne uses the poem A valediction: Forbidding Mourning to express the loss of love. He uses the poem as a farewell speech to woman. The speaker says, “Dull sublunary lovers’ love/ (whose soul is sense) cannot admit/ Absence, because it doth remove those which elemented it./But we by a love, so much refined that our selves know not what it is,/ Inter- assured of the mind,/ care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.” (Lines 13-20). The speaker express how shallow lovers cant stand to be apart from each other because their entire relationship is based on their physical presence. They cant unglue themselves from one another for even a second because their physical desires started elemented their love, absence extinguishes it. The Speaker says, “Our two souls therefore, which are one, / though I must go, endure not yet/ a breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to airy thinness beat” (Lines 21-24). John Donne express how in a relationship a woman and man two souls are one and their bond is unbreakable. He is saying a farewell speech to his lover and he must