The metaphysical conceit , the unique rhetorical device of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century in Britain , was developed into the distance analogy principle by T. S. Eilot. Further , western modernists who were fond of metaphysical metaphors developed it into the abstract analogy principle. To perceive such kind metaphor , one has to figure out the abstract concept first , to which the surface metaphor refers , and then contact all the mult...