Metaphysical conceits

[becka178]

The word “meta” means beyond thoughts so the term “metaphysics” swivels round the idea “beyond the bound of human thoughts”. The age of Metaphysics mainly included people like John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Richard Crashaw and others. The strange comparisons that they used often in their poetry to relate living and non-living beings were called “metaphysical conceits”. The examples are “the lovers compared to compass”, “the blood of lovers have mingled in the flea because the flea have bitten both of them”.

[sugarglider]

Sounds cool.

I was asking in another post for ideas on how I might learn how to write lyrics. (I write music, but I've never been able to write lyrics.)

Perhaps I'll go and read some of this poetry for some ideas and inspiration.

There's an amazing piece of music by John Adams called "Harmonium" which features a very moving setting of some poetry by John Donne, along with a great poem by Emily Dickinson.