LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Their works are characterized by the use of conceit
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Their works are characterized by the use of puns
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Their works are characterized by the use of humor
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Their works are characterized by the use of physics
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Detailed explanation-1: -Metaphysical poetry is characterized by unconventional and imaginative conceits and metaphors. Samuel Johnson, coined the term ‘metaphysical poetry’, keeping in mind the literary features of their poetry.
Detailed explanation-2: -It has also sometimes been suggested that these poets are metaphysical in the sense that they combine thought (or metaphysical speculation) with feeling in ways that were distinctive to the seventeenth century. This claim likewise fits some poets and some poems better than others.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Donne and other so-called metaphysical poets used conceits to fuse the sensory and the abstract, trading on the element of surprise and unlikeness to hold the reader’s attention. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, ” for instance, John Donne envisions two entwined lovers as the points of a compass.
Detailed explanation-4: -Marvell’s poetry abounds in wit and metaphysical conceits. “The Definition of love “opens with metaphysical conceits when the poet says that his love was ―begotten by despair upon impossibility". There is a conceit in almost every stanza of the poem.