John Donne's Songs and Sonnets vivify Donne as a poet of love . The poems express a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. To Donne love can be an experience of the body, the soul, or both; it can be a religious experience, or merely a sensual one, and it can give rise to emotions ranging from wooing a mistress to the physical union of ecstasy .
John Donne (1572-1631) reacted against the monotonous convention of the Elizabethan love poetry and established what has become known as the Metaphysical style in 17th century English love poetry .While the Elizabethan love poets were busy in dressing their mistresses with rare beauties of a goddess, and faltering them with magnificent praises, Donne in that case enjoys the lady love, experiences her love and tells his readers about the nature of that experience.
.Donne’s The Good morrow is out and a love-poem .Here the theme is on the experience of physical union and there by speculations and reflections of the ecstasy .The poet begins to advocate on the depth and intensity of the new passage of experience .Previously he could not know what love was. Now he has tasted it. As a lover, the poet with the help of a number of far-fetched images displays his realization of the experience.
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