CONCEIT

__ Conceit __

From the Latin term for “concept,” a poetic **conceit** is an often unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more intellectual than sensual.

In Shakespeare’s [|“Sonnet XCVII: How like a Winter hath my Absence been,”] for example, “What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!” laments the lover, though his separation takes place in the fertile days of summer and fall.

 The barren tree was a depressingly black and starck difference which made the mood fall into a never ending pit. This is obviously a conceit as the nature around it is lusicous and green.