Radha Madhab Jha

This research paper highlights a study of love themes and metaphysical concepts in ‘Songs and Sonnets’. Really John Donne is the pioneer poet to present diversity in his works regarding the love themes and metaphysical concepts. This paper shows that really John Donne was a unique poet in his writing style of metaphysical and love poetry. As Donne’s poems are concerned they do possess subtle metaphysical and love ideology with great intellect and genius. The Flea‟ presents the subtle metaphysical ideology of a distressed lover when he stops his beloved holding her hand from slashing out a flea. ‘Sweetest Love I do not go’ is a fine example of balance between intense love and longing for the beloved. The Ecstasy is an important Metaphysical poem in which Donne’s idea of ecstasy drawn from Plotinus. “Death be not proud” presents an argument against the power of death. Addressing ‘The Sun Rising’ has very colloquial opening. Donne addresses sun as ‘busy old fool’ sun which is the cente...

Ben Jones asserted that Shakespeare “was not of an age but of all time. Indeed, he is so. Today we can say that Shakespeare is not just a poet of England, but of mankind. And yet, whatever else he was, Shakespeare was not a reformer. Shakespeare is essentially a poet of life. He has accepted the gross and the gold, the beauty and the ugliness. He has, as Middleton Murray aptly describes. ‘The supreme power of inclusiveness’. Life and love are inextricably inter-twined in Shakespeare’s vision, both in the tragedies and the comedies. Love is one of the fundamental instincts of man, shared by the kings and the poor alike, Shakespeare, the chronicler of life, has realized this supreme truth, and that explains his immense popularity. He is a poet of the eternal pain, the human soul in intense emotion has expressed itself in his works, and men and women. Human tastes change, values change, and literary standards are never sacrosanct. A great poet is one who has not only a deep insight int...