Describe John Donne as a metaphysical poet?i want the point vise description of john donne as a metaphysical poet.

Metaphysical Poetry is defined more in terms of style than content or a governing ideology. John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Henry Vaughn, Richard Crashaw and Abraham cowley are the poets in contention. The word 'Metaphysical' came later, in the contemporary period, these poems were called 'strong lines'.

The Metaphysical style and other elements as evident in the poetry of John Donne are as follows--

1.The concietful style--combining distant and far fetched analogies e.g. lovers' hearts and hemispheres

2. The allusive style--references to a vast area of discursive knowledge from mythology to science.

3. The poetry of erudition, displaying knowledge

4. Argumentative style--using logical forms, premise-conclusion structures

5. The epigrammatic style--working by the means of short pithy statements, paradoxes and ironies.

6. Parodic and undercutting style, marked with latent sarcasm

7. A critical and realist stance in terms of love-poetry--candid admission of sexuality and physicality in love, the accommodation of plurality in it, the body-soul dialogue in love, critique of the Elizabethan romantic idealism.