Donne is innocent As William Wordsworth rightly said, "Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is as immortal as the heart of man." His themes are the simplest experiences of life: pain and joy, love and hate, peace and war. Yet they are equally the boldest formations, the most complex classifications and studies of reason if the poet is able to bring sensations into these poems, transforming them into passionate experiences through vivid and moving images. For uncertain or inexperienced readers, unprepared for euphemism and niceties, Donne's poetry serves as a vivid recruiting tool. Such readers need to be grabbed by the shoulders and shaken by the strenuity of Donne's metaphysical presumptions in order to truly delight in a poem's style and theme. Women's far-fetched analogies that defy ordinary logic are fun for readers, just like solving a challenging puzzle. While other poets may captivate or touch hearts with their simple pleasure, Donne is a poet who truly teaches and delights through the work he offers his reader. His style excites readers who solve his puzzle and are brought into a secret society of themes and meanings. While his charm and whimsy are not for the uncommitted, as his work requires some research (cosmology, cartography, contemporary politics, law, logic, physiology, etc.), his poetry is united by a sense of urgency of the mind and spirit. Although Ben Johnson predicted that Donne's poetry would die for lack of "being understood," it is precisely this desire that comes from his use of metaphysics that allows him to effectively teach and delight his audiences. In support of T. S. Eliot's metaphysical poets, he pointed out that, “Our civilization comprises a great variety and complexity...... middle of paper...... as current and striking as those of phrasing. Donne experiments with rhythmic effects as much as he does with ideas and words. Thought in his poetry is not the primary concern but feeling. It is precisely this feeling, a pleasure in his conceits and a new understanding of what the conceit expresses and teaches, that he successfully conveys to his readers. The central theme of his poetry is his intense personal dispositions, as a lover, friend, psychoanalyst of his own experiences, worldly and religious. Classical poetry cannot unify these experiences; it is John Donne's use of metaphysics that allows him to present his poetry as a complete experience and to show feelings as they are. This technique demonstrates not only its success in teaching and delighting audiences, but in achieving both so effectively that it has the ability to profoundly influence readers..