'The intellectual style of metaphysical poetry removes it to a certain extent from the vicissitudes of life. Donne makes use of language and discourse which are obviously not 'poetical'. Things which are completely unlike are brought together, so a certain sense of artificiality remains. This is the very nature of the metaphysical conceit, where far fetched comparisons are made through convoluted or unlikely metaphors, where 'heterogeneous ideas are yoked together' (Johnson in ed. Greene, 1984, p.678), such as the idea of love and a flea. This rather violent technique makes the reader see things in a different way, as is certainly true of Donne’s No.14 from the Holy Sonnets, in which there is a violent juxtaposition of the religious and sexual, two things completely dissimilar. [...] Experiences which have normally been kept apart in the mind are now yoked together, in an unsettling manner, the revered God is now addressed in desperate, aggressive terms; ‘Batter my heart, three-personned God’ such are the violent, shocking and colloquial terms employed in the initial conceit as the poet calls for salvation.'