| Cavalier | Metaphysical |
|---|---|
| artificiality urban refinement superficiality no personal involvement no tragedy sensuous, worldly fewer religious references (only pseudo-religious language) |
vividness abrupt speech patterns realistic expressiveness melancholy amatory, religious melancholy disrupted world |
| neo-classicism clarity unity symmetry proportion influence of Latin poets pagan elements |
difficulty anti-Ciceronian elitist concentration ('expanded epigram') strong-lined conceit wit fusion colloquial-scientific, irony-sublimity, thought-feeling to persuade |