In his love poetry, Donne exhibits a more varied range of feelings than the Elizabethans. Moreover, his imagery, diction and versification are startlingly different. Discuss. (P.U. 2003)

When Donne began writing, the Elizabethan tradition had reached the point of satiation. The Elizabethan love poetry, specially sonneteering, was based wholly on the Petrarchan style. It involved the theme of woman-worship expressed in sugar-coated language. It was full of allusions to gods and goddesses of mythology. Furthermore, the emotion and feeling in the Petrarchan style of love poetry