The baroque period had a special taste: to astonish, to dazzle, and to create illusions. These are the words that best describe the baroque style.
             Characterized by obsession with nothingness, violent expressions, pessimism, chaos, confusion, and many other attributes, all the poems of the baroque period reflect these tributes.
             The three poems "Easter", What Interest, my Jesus, Drives you Thus" and "The Flea" definitely range in the Baroque category and reflect in many ways the dominant style of the baroque age.
             The first conceit apparent in the three poems is the blood that reflect a shed violence through gross images.
             In the first poem "Easter", the poet mentions clearly the 'Blood' theme. The words used and prove this are 'blood' l.2, 'holy blood' l.3, 'lambs' l.4, 'killed' l.5, 'red' l.7, 'own blood' l.10, 'sword' l.11, 'heart' l. 13. If we were to explain this, we would see that all the words like 'killed, sword, heart' remind us directly of the word blood. Killing by itself involves flooding of blood, sword is used for killing and we often associate it with blood, lamb is used for sacrifice and therefore killing i.e. blood, and finally the heart which is red and full of blood. Moreover, many words reflect the violence and the gross images that go along with the word 'blood': killed, fiercer, threatens, destruction, fear. This not only show the fascination by the metaphors, but also the exaggeration in the expressions, which translate the human passions and reveal the artistic interest in this period for lyricism and pathetism.
             This also appears in the third poem "The Flea", mentioning of blood many times (l.4, 8, 20), and other words related to violence and blood like 'kill, sacrilege, killing, cruell, drop, death". These words reflect ...