What is metaphysical poetry?

Question: What is metaphysical poetry!?

In american literature where can it be applied!? What work and what quote!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Metaphysical poetry is poetry that is philosophical, abstract, appeals to the intellect rather than the emotions!. It usually deals with themes related to existence, being, time, God, ideas/intellect!. May be theological!. Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens explore metaphysical issues!. So does TS Eliot (altho he was also British)!. Examples of metaphysical poems are:

They say that "Time assuages"--
Time never did assuage--
An actual suffering strenghens
As sinews do, with age--

Time is a Test of Trouble--
But not a Remedy--
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no Malady--

Dickinson (1860s)

Word over all, beautiful as the sky,
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time
be utterly lost,
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly
softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
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Whitman, "Reconciliation" (1865)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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