John_Donne

John Donne John Donne John Donne used poetry and spellbinding sermons to examine platonic love that transcends the body to a more divine level (Knauss 1: 2). Throughout all of his works, there was a common theme where, “love became an expression of existence (The Metaphysical Poets [Motion Picture]).” Donne's poetry and sermons are a portrayal of his yearning to find a place in the physical world, or rather, a role to play in a society from which he often found himself detached or withdrawn. His “ingenious fusion of wit and seriousness, stress on poetry as speech rather than song, and representation of a shift from classic model toward a more personal style (Jokinen “English Literature”),” all lead him to become the most outstanding of the English Metaphysical Poets . John Donne was born in Bread Street, London, in 1572 to a prominent Roman-Catholic family (Jokinen “English Literature”). Donne was the third child out of a family that would have seven. His father, also John Donne, was a respected and prosperous ironmonger of the Welsh descent (Bloom 11). His mother was Elizabeth Heywood Donne, whose father, appropriately enough, was John Heywood, an English writer of many interludes, whom participated in the development donne, john, english, death, donne’s, literature, jokinen, poets, metaphysical, love, ed, poetry, picture], bloom, [motion, poems, family, after, years, religious, became, 1998, young, year, wrote, world, later, halio, catholic, before, university, sir, sermons