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In classical poetry, there are two categories of conceit: Petrarchan conceits and metaphysical conceits. Petrarchan conceits are a fixture of the Petrarchan sonnet , while metaphysical conceits can be found in a school of poetry known as metaphysical poetry.
1 History of Metaphysical Poetry. 2 Who Were the Metaphysical Poets? 3 Characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry. 4 Examples of Metaphysical Poems. 5 FAQs. 6 Related Literary Terms. 7 Other Resources. History of Metaphysical Poetry.
The metaphysical conceit. This kind of elaborate, extended metaphor or analogy is also known as a conceit. A conceit is an unusual or surprising analogy, metaphor, or simile – a kind of extended metaphor, if you will – which metaphysical poets often use in their poetry.
Metaphysical conceit is an imaginative leap made to compare two very unlike things and explore their similarities. Sometimes a poet can hide the real meaning of the metaphor under the surface of this comparison, while at other times a poet might choose to literalize a metaphor and explore what it would be like if the metaphor were realistic.
The term "metaphysical conceit" refers to an extended metaphor or comparison that is characteristic of the works of the seventeenth century Metaphysical Poets, a group...
Learning Objectives. List characteristics of metaphysical poetry and apply them to the poetry of John Donne. Define metaphysical conceit, paradox, apostrophe, and allusion, and identify examples in Donne’s poetry.
1 Literary Criticism. 2 The Metaphysical Conceit. 3 The Petrarchan Conceit. Literary Criticism. Today, most commonly, the word conceit is found within modern literary criticism. It is used to refer to an extended rhetorical device that speaks to a situation that does not exist or does so rarely, but all the same, is needed for the story to go on.
