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.
Conceits are common in poems, short stories and novels and are a well known device used in Shakespearean plays. These tools convey humor, express love or mourn mortality. Metaphysical conceit is associated specifically with the poets and works of 17th century metaphysical writers. Compositions from that period are heavily laden with conceit and are often completely comprised of it as a single literary device.