What are some good examples of Metaphysical and Romantic poems?
John Donne is your man. I think he was the sort of the father of metaphysical poetry. “The Flea” is a famous poem where a flea “that bites both the speaker and his lover becomes a conceit arguing that his lover has no reason to deny him sexually, although they are not married: Oh stay! three lives in one flea spare Where we almost, yea more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage-bed and marriage-temple is.
