2. Metaphysical Poets
• In the 1600’s many English poets broke away from the
forms of poetry that had been popular in Elizabethan
times.
• These ‘metaphysical’ poets included John Donne,
George Herbert, Richard Crashhaw and Abraham
Cowley-being this last one- a decadent representative
leading more to a neo-classic mainstream or genre.
3. First steps into identity
• This extract comes from a longer poem
«On My self»
Indeed, an internal reflection that
depicts the sense of identity is masterly
rendered in this poem.
Not to mention that at this point in
British history, there was not a held
identity upon citizenship. The tittle does
not merely refers to the act of vote at its
best yet, it intends to view reality closest
to a day-to-day basis.
