summarise John Donne's poem "The Extasic"
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The poem, The Ecstasy , is a remarkable subtle work and perhaps he most famous of Donne’s love-poem. Its title is apt and suggestive. The word Ecstasy is derived from the Greek word Ekstasis which means to stand out (EK=out and Sta=to stand). In The Ecstasy, the souls of the poet and his beloved stand out their respective bodies and hold converse. If we subscribe to the views of medieval and mystical era, Ecstasy is trance-like state in which the soul leaves the body, comes out, and holds communion with the Divine, the Supreme, or the Over-Mind of the Universe. As well as this, in The Ecstasy the souls of the lover and the beloved come out of the body, but they hold converse not with God, but with each other, the purpose being to bring out the essentially sensuous and physical basis of spiritual love. Thus in his usual characteristic manner Donne has used religious and philosophical belief to illustrate the physical and the material...