... profound areas of experience, especially about love, romantic and sensual; about man's relationship with God - the eternal perspective, and, to a less extent, about pleasure, learning and art. Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterised by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and stanza) is the underlying (and often ... contribution to a long-standing tradition of poetic love. They are difficult, -witty performances, showing the effect of s wide reading a scholastic training, using strong mora...

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• Grade Level: High School