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.
Metaphysical. A term now generally applied to a group of seventeenth-century poets; chiefly Donne, Carew, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell, Cleveland and Cowley.ater Johnson in his Lives of the Poets (1779-81) established the term more or less permanently as a label. Johnson wrote somewhat disapprovingly of the discordia concors in metaphysical imagery, and referred to heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together.