Tracey Emins and Metaphysical Poets

Tracey Emin’s

• Used mono prints: depict events in her life like in ‘Poor Love’
• Used water colors: Turner Prize
• Worked with neon lights
• Photography : Monument Valley
•  Most famous in 1999: The Bed: reflected her suicidal life and Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (tent)

Metaphysical Poetry

• Abrupt opening

• Lyrical

• Inspired by a philosophy

• Very simple tone

• Implies the characteristics of complexity

• Dramatic tone

• Abundance of wit

• Fusion of intellect and emotion

• Colloquial (informal) argumentative tone

• Uses allusions

• Uses paradoxical images

• Unusual sense of metaphors and similes

• Uses conceits – comparison between a metaphysical event and a tangible object

• Takes simple events and expands them into abstract ideas