John Donne & Robert Herrick compare/contrast

Each work concerns time. Robert Herrick believed that when you get older, you may regret not experiencing certain things earlier. He encouraged virgins to go out and live life to the fullest, because your only young once. If that means enjoying the beauty of the opposite sex, “Then be not coy, but use your time.” Why waste the best period of your life, when you look better than your ever going to look again? Herrick also points out that when youth is gone, it’s gone forever, and you have the rest of your life to look back on the thi

Many works of poetry in the time of the renaissance express many of these ideas. It was a time of great romanticism. Every humanist expressed their ideas, whether it was with a paintbrush or a pen. All searching for more answers about time, love, and death.

Herrick’s poem does not completely concentrate on the sexual aspect. He was seeking to make a greater point about the nature of our existence and our way of using our lives. He uses the sun to describe life. The setting of the sun symbolizes our lives coming to an end. The topic of death is strongly used to encourage the “carpe diem” theme.

On the contrary, Donne is expressing his love for his wife, not of a mistress whom he wishes to love him. The love between the two is not wholly physical, it is also very spiritual. Anticipating a physical separation from his beloved, he invokes the nature of that spiritual love to ward

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