I really enjoyed having a piece I had written some time ago reblogged to the Happy Honkers blog site. Thank you!
This article Defining Metaphysical Literature was re-posted from https://ontheplumtree.wordpress.com/
Thanks to Niamh Clune for the comprehensive definition
The term, Metaphysical literature, originally referred to poetic works from the 17th century and defined intellectually challenging poetry. Striving to incorporate the incorporeal, the transcendent, the noumenal, the subject matter itself posed a problem and poses it still. According to philosophers such as Nietzsche and Kant, nothing can be known about noumenal reality, not even that it exists. Yet, throughout the ages, humankind has striven to express the notion of soul, the fervour and truth accompanying vision and revelation, the divinity that speaks from within.
Early metaphysical poets such as John Donne extended metaphors that compared very dissimilar things. This was to make us think, to try to express the paradoxical nature of all things metaphysical. After all, in the search for truth and meaning, a truth is only considered a truth if it…
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I like the picture! 🙂
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Lol! Erik! Thank you. I will tell Tahlia!
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