John Donne as a Metaphysical Poet

John Donne  is one of the most intellectual literary figures in English  literature . He was regarded and honoured as an intellectual  giant  of his age. He was an original thinker and his poetry set new trends and won for him the most distinguishing and extra ordinary title of  metaphysical poet . He was the central sun of the little  constellation  of metaphysical poets and Cowley, Herbert, Vaughan, Dante and many others revolved around him like minor  stars . He led an unprecedented revolt against the old  Petrarchan traditions . It is an established and undeniable fact that Renaissance (the gradual enlightenment of human mind and thought after the darkness of Middle Ages) had influenced the Elizabethan poetry to a great extent but John Donne’s works are quite different from the traditional works of the poets of his time. Hence, he revolted against the conventional poetic devices and drew original, far-fetched , uncommon and untouched...