Comments on: “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time” http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/ Quotes, snippets, things that caught my eye... Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tiffany http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/#comment-19956 Tiffany Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:57:13 +0000 http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/#comment-19956 carpe diam and seize the day. that is what this poem is truly about. watch dead poets society and maybe you will understand the meaning of that phrase. seize the day. carpe diam and seize the day. that is what this poem is truly about. watch dead poets society and maybe you will understand the meaning of that phrase.
seize the day.

]]> By: chris http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/#comment-61 chris Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:26:52 +0000 http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/#comment-61 I think you're taking Herrick WAY too seriously here... he was a playful author and this is a playful poem. Not about patriarchal society and the vcalue of virginity, but about a guy who wants to get into a girl's pants and is trying to convince her that it's OK. I mean, read <a href="http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/The_Vine.htm" rel="nofollow">The Vine</a> which has no subtlety about it at all, or <a href="http://www.links2love.com/poetry_203.htm" rel="nofollow">A Sweet Disorder in the Dress</a> in which he's not being quite so obvious, but it's all about sex and desire. Not that Marvell isn't also considering virginity and its value (that's the paradox of "But being spent, the worse, and worst / Times still succeed the former." A brother poem, of course, would be <a href="http://www.poetry-archive.com/m/to_his_coy_mistress.html" rel="nofollow">To His Coy Mistress</a> I think you’re taking Herrick WAY too seriously here… he was a playful author and this is a playful poem. Not about patriarchal society and the vcalue of virginity, but about a guy who wants to get into a girl’s pants and is trying to convince her that it’s OK. I mean, read The Vine which has no subtlety about it at all, or A Sweet Disorder in the Dress in which he’s not being quite so obvious, but it’s all about sex and desire. Not that Marvell isn’t also considering virginity and its value (that’s the paradox of “But being spent, the worse, and worst / Times still succeed the former.”

A brother poem, of course, would be To His Coy Mistress

]]> By: Janice http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/#comment-60 Janice Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:57:48 +0000 http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/#comment-60 [You must keep in mind that the poem is being delivered by a man to a virgin(s).] Though women are more valuable as virgins, virgins become less valuable with age. To wed young ensures you a husband, waiting may cause you to never be married-to lose your retail value. The author's urgency in the matter is obvious and uses comparisons to death (dying flowers) to emphasize this. [You must keep in mind that the poem is being delivered by a man to a virgin(s).] Though women are more valuable as virgins, virgins become less valuable with age. To wed young ensures you a husband, waiting may cause you to never be married-to lose your retail value. The author’s urgency in the matter is obvious and uses comparisons to death (dying flowers) to emphasize this.

]]> By: Carmen http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/#comment-50 Carmen Sat, 03 Dec 2005 22:30:48 +0000 http://www.cosmopoetica.com/cpb/library/2005/02/07/herrick-to-the-virgins/#comment-50 This is a wonderful poem. It has a somewhat twisted element to it. Wait to marriage to have sex? Or go for it when you are young and youthful? This is a wonderful poem. It has a somewhat twisted element to it. Wait to marriage to have sex? Or go for it when you are young and youthful?

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