He compares two separated lovers as the legs of a compass in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and equates marriage with two lovers being bitten by the titular flea.
In this poet's early work he often used erotic and unconventional metaphors such as comparing the exploration of America to the undressing of his mistress in "To His Mistress Going to Bed". He compares two separated lovers as the legs of a compass in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and equates marriage with two lovers being bitten by the titular flea. Both Thomas Merton, in his No Man is an Island, and Hemingway for "For Whom the Bell Tolls" took their titles from this poet's Meditation XVII.  For 10 points each, identify this metaphysical poet whose works include Elegies, and Holy Sonnets, one of which include the line "Death be not proud".
In this poet's early work he often used erotic and unconventional metaphors such as comparing the exploration of America to the undressing of his mistress in "To His Mistress Going to Bed".
John {Donne}