The Anaylitical Approach to John Donne's "The Apparition"

John Donne was to most, considered a metaphysical poet, or a poet who finds their inspiration on expressing the world not as it would be universally revealed but in the world as science and philosophy account it. The poem "The Apparition" lacks many of the general characteristics that distinguish metaphysical poetry but continues to be classified as a metaphysical representation (Norton, 1). "The Apparition" contains at least three transformations of feeling. The manifestation success of this …

…of the mistress. By its plot and the stance of its speaker, we take it to be part of Donne's first great period of lyric writing. "The Apparition" indulgences the persuasion to love as a dramatic situation of intimacy, not simply as an occasion for cunning positioned in an abstract world. Much of the wit of the poem rests in the reader's ability to appreciate the counterpoint between the dramatic scene and the ironic language.