The Flea Context Flashcards
1
Q
Literary context
A
Love poetry was popular
Metaphysical poem
Written when Elizabeth 1 the Virgin Queen was in power
2
Q
metaphysical poem
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Concerned with the abstract of philosophical
Use of strange paradoxes and puns
Questioned nature of existence and universe
3
Q
John Donne
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Dean of St Pauls cathedral
Poems published posthumously
Departs from conventions of 16th century verse
