John Donne as a Love Poet

  John Donne was a great, prominent and eminent poet of Renaissance period who was not in favour of imitating the old Petrarchan or mostly beaten traditions of poetry. In fact, he was an original thinker who used his knowledge of biology, mathematics, sociology and medicine etc. in his poetry. He presented a score of new, surprising, startling and appalling conceits and images which had never been expounded by his predecessors. He wrote love poems and divine poems almost with equal competence. He used  conceits and images  in his  metaphysical poetry . Therefore, he is well-reputed as a prominent love poet and  divine poet . His love poems are popular among the lovers of poetry. His philosophy of love can easily be understood through a famous verse from one of his love poems.   “If as in water stirred, more circles be, By some pebble, love such additions take.”   However, it is a matter of great confusion to extract a definite, exact and ac...