English poet. 1572 was born in a wealthy family in London. 163 1 died in London on March 3 1. Believe in Roman Catholicism. In his early years, he joined the Earl of Essex's expedition to Spain, and later became the secretary of the Queen's Minister Sir Thomas Eggleton. He converted to the Anglican Church on 16 15 and later became a famous missionary at that time. From 162 1, he was appointed dean of St. Paul's Cathedral College in London.
Donne is the founder and main representative of metaphysical poetry, and his creation inspired so-called "metaphysical poetry" including a large number of outstanding poets such as george herbert and Andrew Marvell. His works include love poems, satires, aphorisms, religious poems and sermons. Poetry has a strong sense of rhythm, vivid language, strange and bold imagination, and often uses Shakespeare's humorous metaphors. These characteristics are very obvious in his poetry collections Song and Short Song.
Donne and his metaphysical poems were neglected in the18th century. Ye Zhi and T.S. Eliot, modernist poets in the 20th century, both absorbed nutrition from Donne's poems, so Donne was regarded as the pioneer of modernist poetry.
John donne published his first collection of poems after his death, which was controversial for a long time and was not recognized as a master until the 20th century. At the beginning of the 17th century, there appeared a group of poets with strange metaphors, colloquial poetic styles and changeable metrical patterns. People call them "metaphysical poets". These poets are a group of knowledgeable people. As samuel johnson described in "The Life of an English Poet": "... Metaphysical poets are learned people, and it is all their efforts to show their knowledge." The main representatives of metaphysical poets are john donne (1572- 163 1), george herbert (george herbert, 1593- 1633) and Richard Crashaw (16/kloc). -1649) and Henry Vogel (Henry Vogel 162 1- 1695) and so on. Among them, john donne is the most representative. John donne was born into an ancient Roman Catholic family and has been a Catholic since childhood. However, due to long-term religious persecution, he later converted to the Anglican Church. John donne has a gift for poetry. His poems are different from the sweet-talking poems that were popular at that time. He abandoned the traditional images used by people in poetry in the past, and adopted strange metaphors and changeable metrical patterns, which has his unique poetic characteristics.