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.
/ËpowÉtri/. noun. Learner's definition of POETRY. [noncount]. 1. : the writings of a poet: poems. I read the poem in a collection of modern poetry. She's published two books of lyric poetry and a novel. He found it easiest to express himself in the language of poetry. He reads/writes poetry. The bookstore holds a poetry reading [=an event in which people read poems that they have written aloud for a group] every Thursday night. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples. 2. : something that is very beautiful or graceful.