Metaphysical poetry is about big issues for example, love, death, and God explored through more trivial things such as chatting up a lover and involves using metaphors to describe these issues. Metaphysical poems are basically arguments about how the world operates. The poems tend to use a situation, e.g. a man chatting up a woman, to explore bigger issues such as the brief nature of life and the need to do things before one dies. A conceit is a clever idea, a bit of cleverness or a time when one is being intelligent but perhaps too clever in an argument. Therefore a metaphysical conceit being a clever idea using metaphors, and usually having a deeper meaning. We looked at John Donne as the main metaphysical poet to explore. John Donne was a metaphysical poet of the late 16th and early 17th century. In his poems there are...