This week and part of the last before, we started to read poetry written by the english writer John Donne. He is considered as a "difficult poet". He is considered the pre-eminent representative poet among other metaphysical poets.
In the first poems we have read, "Holy Sonnet VI" and "The Flea", I have noticed the excellent and constant use of metaphors which may give the poem a "second meaning". This ability is reflected all over the poem "The Flea". Another characteristic that I could found is that Donne not always uses a determined structure in his stanzas but instead, recurs, in a great fraction of his poems, to write stanzas free of structure –with no determined rhythm, rhyme or number of syllables.
John Donne has some peculiarities of his own. One of them and the one for which he is most recognized, is his excellent ability and talent of using some unexpected associations between contrasting words and ideas to make a new effect on the reader, his wit.
Poetry as I said in my last post is not as easy o be written. It is complex and this makes it harder to understand by the reader. This two features give poetry and its writer a more heterogenous value. One thing is that after reading an article about Donne's wit, made myself be more considerate about poetry is the fact that not always prestigious abilities such as John Donne's wit are highly regarded.
