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common themes / content

  • challenged conventional Elizabethan poetry

  • intellectual ideas

    • science, politics, geography

    • philosophical speculation

    • love, death, soul, God, nature of existence

  • readers challenged to think

  • contradictions and complex logic

  • argumentative style

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typical literary devices

  • striking images

  • conceits 

  • metrically flexible

  • colloquial diction

  • sudden openings

  • quick changes in tone / subject

  • like dramatic monologue / debate

  • sometimes in media res

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metaphysical time period

1600-1700

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