Wrate a note on Donne's Use of coneits.

Ans. Literally meta' means beyond and physical means physical nature. Metaphysical poetry therefore means poetry that goes beyond the physical world of the senses and explores the
spiritual world. Metaphysical poetry makes wide use of ingenons conceits, imaginative images and usually presents a combination of intense emotion with mental ingenuity.
Conceit is an elaborate , extended and starting omparison between two dissimilar things . A conceit may be a brief metphor, but usually forms the framework of an entire poem. In Englsh there are two basic kinds of conceits--Petrarchan and Metaphysical.
The poem begins with the deseription of a time when the speaker had not yet fallen in love. In order to clarify his point the spcaker uses the conceit of a baby. Like a baby the lovers were not "wean'd"
till falling in love. The idea is that before falling in love, they had not come to their maturity, rather they "suck'd on country pleasures, childishly". This sense of immaturity is further expressed when the
speaker admits that he had earlier seen beautul girls but they were nothing but a dream of his present beloved. In a platonic vein speaker seems to say that his earlier loves worked as stepping stones leading to his present love.

In the second slanza, the speaker imagines that their two souls can encounter and greet one another. He then presents a conceit as a proof, saying that love can control all other affairs of the world, it "makes onc little room an everywhere". For the lovers, love is all-
important. All other things are considered subordinate to their interest in love. This is why, the speaker says:

Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
The speaker thus mixes up the idea of the world of love with the geographical world. This geographical issue is again mingled with Donne's characteristic glass image. The speaker assumes that the face of cach lover is reflected in the eyes of the other. Thus their eyes work as a mirror. Morcover, the lover's face is compared to a hemisphere. In fact, their face is belter than the geographical
hemisphere because it is pure and immune to decay.
Where can we finde two better hemispheres
Without sharp North, without declining West?
It is held that North Polc is a cold region, while West is the symbol of darkness, death and decay. The lovers hemispheres have no such defcct. The final conccit further clarifics this point by
drawing upon a medieval physiological belicf. According to the belicf, if the constitucnts of a thing mix proportionately, then it has no possibility of decay and destruction. The two lovers love is so similar that they have becn immaculate, purc and permancht. This is a fine example of Donne's use of conceit.
According to the Biblical story, in an attempt to avoid persecution at the hand of King Decius, the seven Christian young
men of Ephesus took shelter in a cave where they slept for many years . When they returned to their country, they found that everything had changed with the passage of time. In his pocm "The
Good Morrow", Donne alludcles to the story from the Bible. The speaker in the poem indicates that he and his beloved had not grown to adulthood before falling in the present love. As if, they were in a
sleepy condition, like that of the seven Cihristian young men.