Winter


TERMS: meter, metaphysical conceit, metaphysical poets, great chain of being, correspondences, new philosophy, disocciation of sensibility, wit, wrenched accent

THEMES: Love and religion in a world of change. Argumentative poetry. The metaphysical conceit. Renaissance love poetry. The dissociation of sensibility. Language and meter. Religious poetry and gender roles.

READINGS: Selected Poems by John Donne