Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0218 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Conceit" Means Conception
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The idea
Sonnet twenty-six hopes "some good conceit of thine In thy soul's thought" will clothe his bare words. A conceit here is a thought or conception. The modern sense of vanity would turn a compliment into an insult, which is how you can tell the reading has gone wrong.
In practice
A conceit is a thought.
Where people slip
Vanity makes praise into an attack.
Your place on the trail
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