Small wooden pieces that come with store-bought canvas. I've been buying inexpensive prestretched canvases at the local art supply store. They come with a plastic bag containing flat pieces of wood, about 1/8 inch thick and a couple inches long, square at one end and pointed at the other.'ve been buying inexpensive prestretched canvases at the local art supply store. They come with a plastic bag containing flat pieces of wood, about 1/8 inch thick and a couple inches long, square at one end and pointed at the other.
Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterized by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and stanza) is the underlying (and often hardly less formal) structure of the poem's argument.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: a conceit is a poetic idea, usually a metaphor. A metaphysical conceit is a particular type of poetic metaphor of the sort developed by the so-called metaphysical poets -- a group of 17th century British poets, including John Donne, who challenged many lyrical conventions (e.g., imagery, meter)