metaphysical poetry

Lyric-Scroll 027: The Sun Rising by John Donne: When Love Hit Snooze on the Universe’s Alarm Clock

A Poem Where Time Gets Cancelled, Science Gets Flirted With, and the Sun Is Just a Nosy Boomer ABS Believes:Some mornings, love doesn’t rise with the sun—it tells it to shut the blinds.Donne didn’t just defy nature—he metaphorically slapped it with a silk bedsheet. Donne: The Metaphysical Flirt Who Made Suns Nervous John Donne was […]

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Lyric-Scroll 020: To His Coy Mistress: When Andrew Marvell Tried to Woo with Time Travel and Death Anxiety

A Poem That Starts with Timeless Love and Ends with a Glorious Sprint Against the Clock ABS Believes:Love is eternal, but your chances aren’t.Poetry is sometimes just beautifully phrased panic about mortality. Andrew Marvell: Metaphysical, Mercurial, and Definitely on a Deadline Marvell was a metaphysical poet, which means he loved deep ideas, wild metaphors, and

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