Samuel Johnson was first to point out the similarities in style and content of some poets of the Jacobean and Carolinian periods
. Choose the correct words to complete the passage below. Metaphysical poetry in the seventeenth century broke away from conventions of lyric poetry
The difference is apparent in the choice of ----------imagery, intellectual wordplay, and the use of colloquial language. John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert wrote in this style.
The difference is apparent in the choice of cacophonous imagery, intellectual wordplay, and the use of colloquial language. John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert wrote in this style.
<u><em>Explanation:</em></u>
Cacophonous imagery is one of these poets' principal qualities. The words they use and metaphors would regularly be stunning and abnormal, for their very own time as well as even later.
The difference is apparent in the choice of ---</span>natural------imagery, intellectual wordplay, and the use of colloquial language. John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert wrote in this style.
<span>The use of natural imagery was intended to illustrate the ideals of the Enlightenment.
