Compare and Contrast of John Donne and Ben Jonson's Poetry

John Donne: spiritual, serious, more use of conceits, subtle arguments, metaphors and vague phrasing, higher level vocabulary, more paradoxical, deeper poetry, longer poems, writes sometimes in prose, indifferent toward life and death

Ben Jonson: materialistic, not as serious, strove for the perfection and harmony he found in his classical authors, clarity and graceful, elegiac, more succinct, more quotable, lighter poetry, shorter poems

Together: metaphysical, women subjects, rhyme, symbolic, epigrammatic, modernists, repetition