To The Virgins To Make Much Of Time Poem

“Carpe diem” is a Latin phrase that is commonly translated as “seize the day.” Many poems contain ideas that are similar to that of carpe diem. They discuss how one must cherish every moment of his or her life because life is limited and will eventually come to an end. Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” is an example of a carpe diem themed poem. Through the use of invigorating imagery, multiple tones, and thought-provoking metaphors Marvell develops an allegory for living every second of life to its fullest.

Spring is the season of growth, revival and beginnings. In the poems “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams and “For Jane Meyers” by Louise Gluck, the poets talk about this very season. In fact, the two poems are contradictory, in that, Williams writes about the bleakness of winter and the awakening of spring. On the other hand, Gluck’s romantic poetry associates the natural renewal of spring with bereavement and death. Both poets use abundant imagery, symbolism, metaphors, different tones, and similes, to affirm their contending attitudes towards the season. Consequently, although the poems are about the same subject, the demeanor of the poets are varied.

     I really like this poem because it makes me want to get out of bed in the morning or turn off the television and do something productive like read a book, or go to the gym. It perfectly reveals the true meaning of carpe diem. The very first sentence alone tells me to get things done while I can. Now when I think of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, it will remind me of carpe diem, which will make me want to make every minute of my day account for something good whether it be reading a chapter

Steven Herrick’s verse novel “By the River” is very successful in conveying the significant ideas about human nature. He uses key themes such as grief, environmental influence and coming of age to explore these ideas. To convey the themes Herrick uses multiple techniques such as imagery, repetition, personification and positive and negative influence throughout his text.

Carpe diem is when the author makes the reader understand that they are trying to tell them to live to their fullest. In both “To His Coy Mistress” and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” the author mentions how they should live like it’s their last day and to make the best out of it. Also beauty takes a big role in both poems and how one day it will fade, so for them to take advantage of it now before it fades.

His integration of various traditional symbols elevates the poem’s overall meaning to his audience. The garden signifies the speaker’s relationship to another that soured, “The sunlight on the garden / Hardens and grows cold,” (MacNeice, 1-2). This is associated with “Our freedom as free lances / Advances towards its end; / The earth compels, upon it” by describing their relationship as something that was healthy and vast that has ended (MacNeice, 6-8). The nature theme is continued with garden paired with sunlight in the repetition of “The sunlight on the garden” (MacNeice, 1, 24).

While the poem speaks of death, the tone is very subtle and joyful because of the multiple imageries of nature through diction such as “bird,” “garden,” and “water.”

Robert Herrick’s poem, “The Vine”, is rich with metaphoric and symbolic aspect to love, pleasure, and dominance. The poem, “The Vine”, as a whole is a metaphor because the speaker has taken the form of a vine or tendril in the poem. The poem is about a man actually dreaming of a woman, Lucia. Robert Herrick specifically uses certain words to express his love and feelings for Lucia. A simile in the poem that is very significant in its entirety is “And found (ah me!) this flesh of mine/ More like a stock than like a vine” (22-23). This line is important throughout the entire poem for the relationship between the speaker’s state of a stock and a vine. By saying he is feeling more like a stock can be interpreted as the growth has diminished and he can no longer love freely for a long time. His love for Lucia is hardening like the stock has or is coming to an end. The words flesh, stock and the phrase of “(ah me!)” (22) can imply that the speaker is happy to be waking up with an erection. The speaker is turned on by his sexual dream and has woken up with the feeling of pleasure. The pop of joy rising from this line interrupts the feelings of embarrassment and confusion, as the speaker is happy that this dream actually occurred. The (ah me!) also interrupts the poem, where the speaker’s dream is interrupted by him waking up. The poem in its entirety is the relationship between the speaker and the vine.

Robert Herrick, an author from the 17th century enjoyed writing about intimacy and pleasure within his poems. The poem to be discussed throughout the paper is The Vine, by Robert Herrick, because of it’s rich metaphoric and symbolic aspect to love, pleasure, and dominance. Essentially the poem, The Vine, as a whole is a metaphor because the speaker has taken the form of a vine or tendril in the poem. The poem is about a man actually dreaming of a woman, Lucia. Lucia is referred to as dainty and the speaker describes her physical characteristics which helps the reader picture what is happening. Robert Herrick specifically uses certain words to express his love and feelings for Lucia. The simile in the poem that is most significant in its entirety is “And found (ah me!) this flesh of mine/More like a stock than like a vine” (22/23). In these lines, the speaker is waking up from his sexual dream. The speaker explains that he is feeling more of a stock than a vine. This is symbolic because the title of the poem is, The Vine, as the speaker has transformed himself into a vine in his dream. By saying he is feeling more like a stock can be interpreted as the growth has diminished and he can no longer love freely for a long time. His love for Lucia is hardening or ending. The physicality of the stock to a vine can also imply that he is waking up with an erection. The speaker is turned on by his dream and has woken up with the feeling of pleasure. These lines are extremely important to the entirety of the poem because it ends with the speaker waking up from his dream and the reader is aware of how he feels.

The �redness� symbolized life because red is associated with life. The next usage of symbolism was in the seventh line. �The spikes of the crocus� referred to a flower called the crocus. The crocus was often the first of the spring flowers to bloom so it is a symbol of the return or rebirth of life in spring. �The spikes� (of the crocus) represent the pains of rebirth. This would be especially fitting since the line before said �The sun is hot on my neck as I observe�. With both lines combined, this could be interpreted as the poet observing the pains of life. Later in the poem, in line eleven, �under ground are the brains of men� symbolizes the downfall of human knowledge since the brain is associated with intelligence and underground can be taken literally as �lower that dirt�. Hence, this can be translated into the statement: �Not only is man�s intelligence lower than dirt�. The poet, in my opinion, is stating that today, men are no longer knowledgeable. And then the line after that, the twelfth line, �Eaten by maggots.� further emphasizes this. Finally, at the end of the poem in lines thirteen to

How the Concept of Death Can Affect the Importance of the Beauty of Essential Elements In the poem “Elegy Before Death” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, she discusses her understanding of how processes in nature will continue after an individual has died. An elegy can be characterized as a lament for a loss (or for a death), but the loss that Millay refers to is characterized by the beauty of natural elements that occur after the loss of the individual mentioned. The title itself hints as to what the poem is; it is an elegy for a foreseen death, but this poem describes the natural processes that continue to occur after this certain death as well. Millay changes the few elemental features of an elegy to convey her perspective on how natural events

First of all, in, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” by Robert Herrick, he expresses the theme of carpe diem by telling the readers about how they should make worth of their time while they can because nobody knows what’s to come for their future. The speaker states, “gather ye rosebuds while ye may” (Line 1), meaning while they’re still young, do something good with their life and marry before it’s too late. He also uses imagery to give the reader an idea of what he’s talking about. For example, he says, “as this same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying” (Line 3-4). In other words, people die slowly everyday so they will never know when it’s their time.

To the virgins, to make much time, it talks about that young women should go and get married because time passes fast. They should go and have fun while they are young.The author uses symbolism, he uses the sun and sunset to show that people should go fun while they can. It refers to live each day at their fullest. The tone in this poem is relaxed because is just talking that they should make most of their time and have fun. He compares the virgins to the rose-buds that one day the

The most common theme in virginity poems is that of men trying to get women to change their minds and go to bed with them. Many poets tried to use persuasion on their objects of desire. In Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time," the well-known first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" appears. This poem is an appeal to virtuous women to use it while they've got it, per se. In the proud tradition of soldiers who will be sent off tomorrow who just know they aren't coming back and hedonists everywhere, Herrick emphasizes that time is short and virgins are wasting their youths

Within the poem “Vincent”, written by Don McClean, a sense of a depressing mood is created through the use of dark diction, detail and figurative language. Throughout his poem, McClean expresses some of his thoughts, on Starry Night, by incorporating words like, “no hope” as well as “suffering”. Along with this, at one point in the poem he says, “the silver thorn of bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow”. With the use of these words,