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The term “metaphysical poetry” connotes the characteristics of complexity,

intellectual tone, abundance of subtle wit, fusion of intellect and emotion,


colloquial argumentative tone, conceits, scholarly allusions, dramatic tone, and
philosophic or reflective elements. John Donne was the most outstanding of the
English Metaphysical Poets. The very beginning of The Sun risingexemplifies
all the above-mentioned characteristics of metaphysical poetry. The abrupt and
colloquial beginning startles, if not shocks, the reader along with the speaker’s
irreverence; and the use of extravagant conceits are without precedent:
“Busy old fool, unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through the window and through curtains call on us?”
 
In this poem, the conceits are a little strange, but no more. As a lover, he puts
himself above ordinary people: schoolboys, apprentices, court-huntsmen, country
ants, who all must work to the sun’s (time’s) bidding. 
The poem contains the characteristics paradox of Donne's metaphysical love
poetry. The way in which he challenges the sun and rebuke him with such terms
'old full' 'unruly' 'wretch' highly revealed the metaphysical nature of the poem.

The comparison of the lover and his beloved with the princess is brilliant and in
itself used as a fine metaphysical conceit. Later on the poet’s comparison between
all the precious thing and 'mimic' and 'alchemy' are some of the examples of very
unique metaphysical conceit.
John Donne in his Holy Sonnets offers an interesting contrast we can spot a pack
of wisdom and uniqueness in his work like in his Holy Sonnet
"Thou hast made me" and," although speaker acknowledges being feeble and
reliant on God to help him refrain from temptation and abstain from sin, the
speaker employs a commanding and authoritative tone with God in an attempt to
convince God to assist him, an approach that is seemingly contradictory to the
meek and humble image of a child of God. In making his appeal to God, the
speaker implements metaphysical conceits in order to describe the relationship
between God, man, and sin and to command God to save him from sin through the
use of force it illustrate the speaker's weakness and dependency on God's aid in
order to resist temptation and to abstain from sinful indulgences. He clarifies his
argument and bridge the gap between humility and control by using metaphysical
conceits to describe the relationship between God, man, and sin. When the speaker
in "Thou hast made me" orders God to "Repair
me now," he implies a relationship in which God is the engineer, man is the
machine he created, and sin is the virus or malfunction that causes the machine to
be defective or imperfect. The speaker in this Holy Sonnet also declares God is
"like adamant" drawing "mine iron heart" which suggests man contains metal in
his framework and further supports the assertion that the speaker is like a machine
created by God. He is flawed by sin and God, as creator of the faulty
machine, is responsible for fixing it. This is a perfect example of metaphysical
poetry because the poet used conceit like God is like a metal to the speaker’s iron
heart. This kind of clever comparison seeks to be original and relates two strangely
opposite things in an interesting way. So here a unique concept is explained it is a
good example of his metaphysical poetry.

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