in what way Donne's treatment of love is different from that the Elizabethan sonneteers ? illustrate with example
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The poetry of John Donne particularly his early poetry generally portrays love and religion as its basic concerns. An attempt to juxtapose physical love with the sacredness of religion through a series of occult resemblances makes his poetry distinct and divergent from the conventional love poetry that dominated the preceding Elizabethan age. His poetry is not approved by his peers because of his deliberate departure from the traditional norms and expectations that cannot accept the possibility of a close proximity between the holy and the unholy, between the sacred and the profane, between the mundane and the spiritual. All these issues in Donne’s poetry lead to certain circumstances that may be outwardly contradictory or even paradoxical, but it is the heterogeneous juxtaposition that enriches Donne’s poetry and sometimes anticipates certain important characteristics of modern poetry. Donne’s uniqueness as a poet in handling the theme of love in most unfamiliar way is obvious in his mostly discussed three poems “The Flea”, The Good Morrow” and “The Canonization