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.
A metaphysical conceit is a drawn out metaphor popular among poets from the 17th century. It likens the qualities of people to physical objects and tends to focus on ideas like love and death. Sonnets are a popular form of metaphysical conceit.