FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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simile
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metaphor
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conceit
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imagery
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is an example of conceit? An example of a conceit is John Donne’s comparison in “A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning” in which he compares the relationship between two lovers to the legs of a compass.
Detailed explanation-2: -My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Petrarchan conceit, which was especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets, is a hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object-e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun. Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion, for instance, characterizes the beloved’s eyes…
Detailed explanation-4: -Conceits usually demand your attention because the comparison seems so farfetched. For example, “A broken heart is like a damaged clock.” The difference between a broken heart and a damaged clock is unconventional, but once you think about it, you can see the connection.