What is metaphysical conceit??????✔✔✔🤘🤘🤘

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The term metaphaysical conceit in poetry refers to the fanciful or unusual image used by the seventeenth century metaphysical poets if whim donne was the founder ... in fact, the term metaphysical poets were first given by samuel johnson who criticised those seventeenth century poets in whose poems... the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.... metaphysical conceit refers to this kind of apparently absurd things or ideas yolked together to evoke particular emotoin ....

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Sometimes this conceits can be found in a single phrase or line... it can run through some lines... or sometimes this can be there considering the poem as a whole... An example of such conceits is the following in the poem .... A validictoin forbidding mourning jhon donne compares the two lovers with the two legs of a compass_one leg centres on a point while the other legs move around_ the centred leg is the beloved.........

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