Examine “the peculiar blend of passion and thought, feeling and ratiocination” in Donne’s poetry.

The metaphysical poets, of whom Donne is the best representative, always looked for a connection between their emotion and mental concepts. Experience to Donne was, as it were, grist to an intellectual mill. When in one of his Holy Sonnets Donne writes,At the round earth’s imagined comers, blow
Your trumpets, Angels………
he is not discussing whether the world is round or flat; he is using the