Conceits and Images in Donne's Poetry

  Conceits and Images in Donne's Poetry John Donne was a great poet of his time. He has composed  metaphysical poetry  which contains conceits and images. Every reader of metaphysical poetry finds the use of conceit as more effective and charming than image. Generally speaking, to compare the beloved’s cheeks and lips with flowers, especially roses, means image; and to compare the lover’s cheeks with roses because they have lost their colour and are bleeding due to thorns, is a conceit. It means that to compare the similar objects means image and to yoke together two dissimilar rather two opposite things means conceit. He has composed his love poems and divine poems with almost equal competence i.e., used conceits and images in both categories of poems. Hence, he is famous as a great  love poet  and  divine poet . John Donne is well reputed and mostly known as an original thinker. He used such conceits and images which made his poetic work complex, complicated, difficult, obscure