Gather ye rose buds while ye may Old Time is still a flying Take advantage of all the opportunities that come your way they will never boomerang and come right back to you again In the 1648 poem To the Virgins to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick uses the controlling metaphor of embracing ones purity to express the complex attitude of the speaker To maintain a more relaxed and inviting tone Herricks diction emphasizes a carpe diem theme to the audience clearly stated in the title in an attempt t
In the poem To the Virgins to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick illustrates that the gift of virginity is to be a great waste if not given while it is still desirable which I can relate to this poem very well being that I am young lady myself and my time here on earth is very precious and need to be spent wisely The understanding that I receive from this poem is speaking of virginity and how one should get married by finding that special someone settling down and living your life to the fullest
Walt Whitman Robert Herrick tremendously famous poets to this day who have both captured the idea of living each day to the fullest in O Me O Life and To the Virgins to Make Much of Time respectively Despite these poems being written an approximate two hundred years apart from each other they do carry the alike theme of carpe diem conveyed in two unique ways These poems differ when the poets show their style through the authors focus meaning tone and poem structure These two poems emphasize dif