Elements to Understanding John Donne, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, and Sir John Suckling

• Metaphysical Poetry
• Satire - to inspire reform
• horation (gentle)
• juvenalian (bitter)
• Sarcasm
• Wit
• Irony
• verbal, dramatic, situational
• Essay
• Connotation / Denotation
• Conceit
• Paradox
• Epigram
• Aphorism
• Carpe Diem
• Theme
• Speaker's Purpose

Persuasion

• Marvell: hyperbole, logos - logic, examples, allusion, imagery, structure - stanzas, tone
• Suckling: rhetorical questions, tone - facetious and mocking