¡Descarga Elizabethan vs Metaphysical y más Apuntes en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! The term "metaphysical" refers to philosophical speculations beyond the sensory: notions such as time, God, human nature etc. The term was originally applied to Donne's poems because of his use of academic learning in the poems. Elizabethan poets, 16th century, were concerned with the expression of simple and conventional themes in a fairly elaborate and artificial way. The primary aim of Elizabethan poetry was not the spontaneous outpouring of emotions. It was a conscious art, rhetorical in method, concerned above all to impose form and order upon experience, working equally through the senses, the emotions, and the reason. Artifice and convention were accepted as natural and desirable. The metaphysical poets were more intellectual in subject matters and style, and expressed their interest in their own experience and in the changing world around them. Metaphysical poetry is remarkable for its fusion of passionate feeling and logical argument. Progression by reasoning was nothing new in Elizabethan poetry, but what distinguishes Metaphysical from Elizabethan poetry in this respect is the subtlety, incisiveness, and range of his thought, together with the sense that the play of intellect tended to become for Donne and the Metaphysical poets an emotional experience. Conceits and wit were a recognized part of the Elizabethan rhetorical apparatus for amplifying a theme, but while Elizabethan poetry use Petrarchan conceit which exploits a set of images for comparisons with the despairing loves and his unpitying but idolized mistress, the Metaphysical poets in their love-poetry use comparisons whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness and which becomes a conceit when we discover occult things in the things unlike. While the Elizabethan love poets were busy in dressing their mistresses with rare beauties of a goddess, and faltering them with magnificent praises, Donne in that case enjoys the lady love, experiences her love and tells his readers about the nature of that experience. In contrast to the Petrarchan tradition of love-poetry that he had inherited, Donne never attempts to deify or idealize the objects of his passion. Another difference is the way in which we must read the poems, while the Elizabethan poetry invited to pause upon a passage, wander with it, and muse upon it, and reflect upon it, metaphysical poetry demands that we pay attention and read on. In terms of style, Donne's poetry Metaphysical poetry) is not as metrical as Shakespeare's (Elizabethan poetry). Donne's verse is much more uneven and jarring to the ear. The metaphysical poets favoured either very simple verse forms, octosyllabic couplets or quatrains, or else stanzas created for the particular poem, in which length of line and rhyme scheme artfully enforced the sense. Early Donne wrote in an open form; Shakespeare was more closed (sonnets). Shakespeare's verse, with its iambic pentameter, is much more uniform and euphonious. Donne's major themes in his earlier period are similar to Shakespeare's: physical union. Both poets' speakers want to live on either in the physical act of love or in the memory of their lovers. Later, Donne will focus on spiritual union. The different language used in this periods is also interesting, there is a contrast between the direct colloquial language used by Metaphysical poets and the irregular language of Elizabethan. It was very important to follow a logical order for Metaphysical, in contrast Elizabethan didn't have a special way of writing.
