John Donne as a Religious Poet

  John Donne was a great, extra ordinary and outstanding literary figure of Renaissance period who inked marvelous poems containing conceits and images which mark his poems as  Metaphysical poetry . He was an original thinker who disdained and disliked the old Petrarchan traditions and Elizabethan conceits. His use of startling  conceits and images  is enough to regard him as a great  love poet  and divine poet. He wrote religious poetry which are termed as ‘Divine Poems’. He proved his metal in both the fields and left an impressive mark on the face English literature. He created some of evergreen and everlasting pieces of poetry which have been being read for a long time and would be read in future as well. Before discussing the salient features and facets of Donne’s divine poems, let us acquaint ourselves with Donne’s religious background. John Donne was a Catholic and he was persecuted and humbled just like other Catholics. Then he embraced Anglican...