1. A Conceit is an extended metaphor, which can be further classified in metaphysical Conceits and Petrarchan Conceit

2. Petrarchan (after the Italian poet Petrarch) Conceits figure heavily in sonnets, and contrast more conventional sensual imagery to describe the experience of love.

3. Petrarchan Conceit, which was popular during the Renaissance, is a hyperbolic comparison to describe a lover.These Conceits were often used in love poetry to compare a lover to grandeur physical objects such as sun, moon, gems, etc.

4. The Petrarchan Conceit, which was especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets, is a hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object—e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun

5. Claude McKay's "To Winter" is a Petrarchan sonnet, with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDCDCD.The poet Apostrophizes Winter in the same way that John Keats addresses Autumn in his ode "To Autumn," and

6. Antitheses of fire and ice were endlessly elaborated and adapted by Petrarchan poets to describe the emotions of the lover, who simultaneously and sequentially experiences desire for his beloved together with shame, because his desire is carnal in nature and he considers himself unworthy of her.