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Poetry in 17th century is divided into two types. There were two groups.
• The metaphysical group of poets:
Metaphysical poets are those poets who followed John Donne. It is scientific, full of analysis and criticism of human.
• The Cavalier poets.
Cavalier poets are those poets who followed Ben Jonson.

The difference between the poetry of these two groups was that the poetry of the metaphysical poetry was full of wit, religious themes.The language used in metaphysical poetry is argumentative simple and witty. They used strange and difficult images.
There was also love poetry but in a very restricted sense, not actual love poetry.

Cavalier poetry was full of joy, fun. It basically focused on women.
There was a difference in the doctrine of John Donne and Ben Jonson.
John Donne is a land mark of the 17th century. He wrote the masterpiece of the 17th century. It is Paradise Lost. His other remarkable works are his sonnets.
He has a literary ear. He used to listen to songs. He used to develop his ideas in poetry. At the age of 30 he got blind after the time of the civil wars. Right after the civil wars he wrote Paradise Lost. He wrote it when he was blind.