1. Analysis of John Donne
... and learning. Imagery in s poetry is not something -tacked on to make it more -poetic and difficult, but it is a focus for seeing experiences in a particular light, and therefore controlling our way of feeling about them. Features of s style: - elevated diction - first personą“- dramatisation of abstracts eg. death, through personification - imperative mood - exclamation - complex syntax eg. use of inversion - ... old philosophies of the cosmos had been superseded. Analogies which had once seemed apt, artistic, and full of insight had come to look merely bizarre and unnatural. s use o...
- Word Count: 7662
- Approx Pages: 31
- Grade Level: High School