Metaphysical Poetry (Introduction)

Metaphysical Poetry is a style of poetry that has used complex figurative languages, paradoxes and philosophical approach. It has been originated in the 17th century in England having such features as intellectuality, sharp images, complications of spirit or religion. The poetry is rich in complexity or a combination of two dissimilar images. Imaginative figures had been taken from different fields of knowledge as History, Geography, Astronomy, Alchemy, Mathematics, etc.

John Dryden was the first to use the term “Metaphysic” in his criticism. Samuel Johnson widely extended it to a group of poets. In “The Lives of The Poet”, Johnson stated that “about the beginning of the 17th century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets”. Both John Dryden and Samuel Johnson had been used the term “Metaphysical” in a negative sense to criticize the poets. After that the term widely used by John Donne, Andrew Marvel, Henry Vaughan, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw. 

These poets were not from any school of poetry but united by common characteristics as wit, inventiveness, love of eleborated style and the powerful comparative images. These poets were not able to differentiate themselves about the negative and positive criticism but by the state of feelings, mostly touch with negative impact. Somehow, John Donne has gone through its bottom to create an environment of comparative love criticism. Andrew Marvel and Henry Vaughan, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw also followed the system of imaginative figures to explore comparative love images. 

Their sincere, deep-felt neoplatonic love, physical thirst, philosophical complimentary to influencial female friends had given a new shape of metaphysical poetry in negative sense as well as positive. When readers regular visit gone through the base, find out more about their devotional songs and complicated love images at different aspects. Metaphysical Poets have deep spritual bounding as well as utopian approach of literary love. They believe in spiritual relationship not only in physical thirst.