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Metaphysical poetry - highly intellectual poetry characterized by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression The main themes are love, death, and religion. The chief representative of the school was John Donne ;Conceit is an elaborate, often extravagant metaphor making an analogy between totally dissimilar things. Love is a spider which dropped into the wine of life, turns it to poison. ;Characteristics of his poems: dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; subtle argumen