PURITANS

Puritans were people who lived in the 16th and 17 centuries. They established a form  of Protestantism. They were quite different from others living in the same period. Therefore, I wanted to more information about this group. The most well-known feature is that they were against pleasure. This was especially against church rules. Also, they thought that everything should be simple. They were against exaggerated things. For example, churches should be design simple because there were these places in order to pray God. Besides, morality was important for Puritans.

 

METAPHYSICAL POETRY

 

This week, our topics were Metaphysical Poetry and examples of these poems.  Initially, I want to talk about Metaphysical Poetry.  This period on poems emerged on 17th century. These poems rely on wit and they are lyrics.  Language is understandable in these poems. Also, there are many conceits in these poems. As for poets, they thought love as physical. They didn’t think it platonic like others. May be, these different features of poems provided to reach today. I think they are interesting and unique works which were written about love.

John Donne and George Herbert are major poets of this period. They wrote poems by unusual style. I was affected by The Flea (J. Donne) and Easter Wings (G. Herbert). Especially, The Flea is quite different and strange poem. The poet used effectively flea to describe love.May be; one day, if a flea or a mosquito sucks my blood, I will remember this poem and I will feel myself like lovers in the poem. :)