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John Donne is unanimously recognized as a true metaphysical poet because he formulated a different conceptual thought against Elizabethan poetry, showed an analytical model of love and affection and showed a essence of dissonance in words and expressions. This article focuses on exploring the characteristics of Donne's metaphysical poetry by highlighting the extended form of epigrams, presumptions, paradoxes, and ratiocinations. Women regarding the manifestation of metaphysical beauty was an unparalleled and superior among all poets such as Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and many others. Donne, in fact, gave a turning point to the initiation of a new form of poetry, metaphysical poetry. He was natural, unconventional and persistently believed in argumentation and cross-analysis of his thoughts and emotions through direct languages. He also focused on love and religion through an intellectual, analytical and psychological perspective. His poetry is not only scholastic and witty, but also thoughtful and philosophical. INTRODUCTION Metaphysical poets have immense power and ability to amaze the reader and persuade the inventive perspective through paradoxical images, subtle arguments, innovative syntax, and images drawn from art, philosophy, and religion involving an extended metaphor known as conceit. The term “metaphysical” widely applied to 17th-century English and European poets was used by the Augustan poets John Dryden and Samuel Johnson to chide those poets for their “unnaturalness.” John Dryden was the first to use the term metaphysical in association with John Donne as it “affects metaphysics.” Likewise Goethe wrote “the unnatural, that too is natural” and the metaphysical poets are studied for their complexity and originality. It will not be irrelevant and absurd to say: “Metaphysics in poetry is the fruit of the Renaissance tree, which becomes overripe and approaches putrescence” (CS Lewis). Scholars have described the characteristics of metaphysical poetry from different points of view. They, in fact, expose the essence of metaphysical poetry, as RS Hillyer defines: “Freely, it has taken on meanings such as these: metaphysical poetry as difficult, philosophical, dark, ethereal, involved, arrogant, ingenious, fantastic and incongruous.” EPIGRAM E DONNEL'S METAPHYSICAL POETRYConcentration is one of the characteristics of metaphysical poetry especially in Donne's poetry because it introduces readers to the new realm of subject matter and the closely intertwined thought, emotion and affection. We can find the communion of two souls of lovers in a single existence in "The Ecstasy" where Donne intended to explain the different acts of love and the function of man as a worthily accomplished man..