Akshit posted an Question
June 20, 2020 • 05:26 am 30 points
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Plz do give general information of metaphysical poets and key points & areas to strictly adhere upon

plz do give general information of metaphysical poets and key points & areas to strictly adhere upon

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    Deb dulal halder Halder Best Answer

    By ‘sensibility’ he means a synthetic faculty which can amalgamate and unite thought and feeling, which can fuse into a single whole the varied and disparate, often opposite and contradictory experiences. The poets lost the capacity of uniting thought and feeling. The ‘unification of sensibility’ was lost, and ‘dissociation of sensibility’ set in.

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    Dr. Johnson in his Life of Cowley points out that in Metaphysical poetry “the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked violence together”. But Eliot felt that the metaphysical poets had a mechanism of sensibility—a unified sensibility—which enabled them to assimilate and fuse into new wholes most disparate and heterogeneous experiences.

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    Eliot’s essay on The Metaphysical Poets was first published as a review of J.C. Grierson’s edition of Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the 17th Century. Eliot has used, for the first time, the phrases Dissociation of Sensibility and Unification of Sensibility,

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