Conceit - John Donne's Concepts of Conceit - Conceit in Donne's Poetry

Donne’s Conceits

Introduction

    ·     Type or nature of Donne’s scholarly and intellectual that is why metaphysical.  

    ·     Yoked by violence together, there is this quality in his poetry but suitably Renaissance

Renaissance Spirit

    Unified Sensibility

    Sources

    ·     His images are drawn from his own interests

    ·     His imagery reveals the width of his intellectual exploration

o Conceits reflecting the contemporary

o Development

o Alchemy

o Geography

o Military

o Exploration and adventure

o Biblical

o Astronomy

Conceit’s Function

·     Organic part of poetic process

    ·     Part of argument

    ·     In metaphysical poems, the definition I nan argument for instrument to persuade Helen Gardner

Dynamic – involving all types of emotions

    ·     His reader can share all types of emotions

    ·     Enjoying a joke

    ·     Sympathy

    ·     Feelings of love

Linked with the poem

    ·     Though Donne’s conceits are for fetched yet they are not fetched yet they are not isolated from the context yet they have astonishing link with poem.

Obscurity in conceit

Conclusion