... is one that is necessary to the entirety, of a poem. The works of poets such as John Donne are famed for their paradoxical usage in their metaphysical poetry. One the sonnets which features in Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward begins with a prime example of a usage: "If poisonous minerals, and if that tree/ Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us." The ... to the Theatre of the Absurd". Although as Brooks states he is not interested in enumerating the possible variations; but in seeing the way that paradoxes spring from the very nature of the poet/ author/ playwright's language. Wh...

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