The Good Morrow by John Donne
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- ABOUT THE POET
John Donne was born in 1572 in London, England. He is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets, a term created by Samuel Johnson, an eighteenth-century English essayist, poet, and philosopher. The loosely associated group also includes George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, and John Cleveland. The Metaphysical Poets are known for their ability to startle the reader and coax new perspective through paradoxical images, subtle argument, inventive syntax, and imagery from art, philosophy, and religion using an extended metaphor known as a conceit. Donne reached beyond the rational and hierarchical structures of the seventeenth century with his exacting and ingenious conceits, advancing the exploratory spirit of his time.
If none doth not seek to find and identify those who won't walk down the dark but often enlightened path of disillusionment, then how can those seeking answers know what might or might not have gone before the journey was undertaken by those who are believed to have taken that journey?
"Fahkarwee, Fahkarwee!" might be the cry.
Many would ask just who they are compared with those who would ask just where they are or could have been or who would attempt to assert just who they believe they are or could have been.
But just how many would ask these questions seems to be indeterminable.