John Donne- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Pseudo-Marty

John Donne is known today as being the chief writer of verse known as metaphysical poetry, which features elaborate conceits and surprising symbols, wrapped up in original, challenging language structures. John Donne was born to a Roman Catholic family in 1572 on Bread Street in London. Although he was born to a well-known Catholic family, he later converted to Anglicanism during the 1590s. His father died when he was only four and left him and his …

…love life. During the Renaissance era, this type of writing was not fully accepted, and vulgar. However, Donne also wrote many religious poems such as Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness. Donne always wanted to fuse love and religion, two contradicting things, and make them looked upon as the same. He only ended up contradicting himself. He later became known as the leader in metaphysical poetry, which challenged itself all of the time.