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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...
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Conceit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aside from its common usage, signifying "excessive pride" (i.e. the conception of Self, the excessive pride as a result of having an inflated conception of self-worth), in literary terms, a conceit ...
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I think it is the reason why metaphysical conceit is more attractive than the Petrarchan conceit. ... Donne has also a tendency to parody the Petrarchan conceit, which was taken as a ridiculous point of view from Donne’s eyes. Metaphysical conceit is multicultural and with a great range, with those comes in tons of new way...
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These are arranged in groups corresponding to the weekly assignments in the English 211 syllabus. Note they are necessarily short definitions. For further help, try the University of Kentucky Classics Department's short list ... A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices. ... (For a famous exception,
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Conceit. An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an ... See Petrarchan Conceit. (Conceit is an old word for concept.) See John Donne's "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," for example: "Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, / The Intelligence that moves, devotion is."
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The Petrarchan conceit, used in love poetry, exploits a particular set of images for comparisons with the despairing lover and his unpitying but idolized ...
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Welcome to the Language, Literature and Linguistics Online Resource (3LORe). This website represents an effort to compile a descriptive list of terms in the study of English Language, ... A far-fetched simile or metaphor, a literary conceit occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things.
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1. The Petrarchan conceit, used in love poetry, exploits a particular set of images for comparisons with the despairing lover and his unpitying but idolized mistress. For instance, the lover is a ship on a stormy sea, and his mistress "a cloud of dark disdain";
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Elizabethan Sonnets In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. ... This is a short summary of this paper! ; ... Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!
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