Whenever you study John Donne’s poetry as students, you study to see whether Donne is a metaphysical poet or he is not a metaphysical poet. At more advance level, you want to see if being a metaphysical poet is a merit or demerit. In order to see whether Donne is metaphysical poet or not, you have to go back to Samuel Johnson who first of all made comprehensive and rather baffling list of qualities of metaphysical poetry, and in order to see if being a metaphysical poet is merit or demerit, you have to study the whole pages of history how his work has been received by readers and how it has been affecting them for centuries—perhaps, more important than anything, how it affects them today when they study Donne’s poetry. Now, let us see how Donne’s poem Twickenham Garden fulfils the criteria of being a metaphysical poem. The poem sums up reactions of a lover after he has been rejected by some female friend who, he believes, should have reciprocated and should have...
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