Brief Question of “The Metaphysical Poets”.

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Brief Question of “The Metaphysical Poets”.

• Who was T.S. Eliot?

Ans: T.S. Eliot was a great 20th-century poet, critic, and dramatist.

• How does Eliot describe 17th-century poetry?

Ans: It is “more often named than read, and more often read than studied.”

• What is Eliot’s brief comment on Grierson’s anthology?

Ans: He calls it “a piece of criticism, and a provocation of criticism.”

• How does Eliot brand Grierson’s “Metaphysical Poetry”?

Ans: As a so-called school or movement of poetry.

• What is extremely difficult about metaphysical poetry?

Ans: Defining it and deciding which poets and lines belong to it.

• Which two poets are nearest to Donne?

Ans: Marvell and Bishop King.

• To which period does Donne’s poetry belong?

Ans: The late Elizabethan period.

• Where did Jonson borrow from?

Ans: From Latin.

• What is common in Donne and Cowley?

Ans: Both use an elaborate poetic device.

• What device do Donne and Cowley use?

Ans: Extending a figure of speech as far as possible.

• What simile is in Donne’s “A Valediction” lines?

Ans: Between a geographer’s globe and a tear of the beloved.

• How does Eliot describe Donne’s line “A bracelet of bright hair about the bone”?

Ans: As telescoping images and multiplying associations.

• Where does the force of the impeachment lie?

Ans: In ideas being yoked but not truly united.

• How is Herbert’s language?

Ans: Simple and elegant.

• What kind of simplicity is in Herbert’s language?

Ans: Extreme simplicity, hard for modern poets to copy.

• How is Herbert’s sentence structure?

Ans: Complex but true to thought and feeling.

• What method does Eliot suggest to define metaphysical poetry?

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