JOHN DONNE AND ANDREW MARVELL

John Donne and Andrew Marvell

Comparison between John Donne and Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell and John Donne both has been master of metaphysical poetry. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and the Flea by John Donne, both the poems are broadly considered as two Metaphysical masters. The Metaphysical Poets are known for their ability to astound the reader and persuade new perception through inconsistent metaphors, subtle argument, creative sentence structure, and imagery from art, and philosophy using an extended metaphor known as a conceit (Abrams, 1999). The two poems of Andrew Marvell and John Donne have an ...