... 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 personഊ- dramatisation of abstracts eg. death, through personification - imperative mood - exclamation - complex syntax eg. use of inversion - language of argument eg. for, yet, but - imagery - rhythms of natural ... epitomising metaphysical poetry in its mingling of religious and sexual experience its use of the learned, scientific vocabulary of cosmography, alchemy and geometry;...

• Word Count: 7662
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... lover a chance to refute his clever rebuttal. The rhythm of the poem flows easily throughout, in an alternating iambic tetrameter/pentameter scheme, with all stanzas ending in pentameter couplets. The diction remains conversational as the speaker unabashedly renounces his lover's feelings without any concern for her thought or belief. While the idea of lessening the significance of sexual activity might entice ... ...

• Word Count: 2776
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School