Sunday, August 30, 2009

Comparison of Carpe Diem Poets

Andrew Marvell: urges love to marry him, religious allusions, matter of fact tone, hyperbole
Robert Herrick: nature metaphors, hopeful tone, personification, organized in fourths
John Suckling: girls only sometimes for guys, rhetorical questions, repetition, angry tone, ironic, puts the blame on the girl not the guy
Between Marvell and Herrick: against coyness, conceits
Between Suckling and Marvell: organized into thirds, structures arguments clearly into a cause-effect argument
All: carpe diem, rhyme, marriage

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