Carpe Diem Poems Essays

Carpe Diem Poems Essays Carpe Diem Poems Paper Carpe Diem Poems Paper Essay Topic: Poetry Carpe Diem Poetry Literally means pluck the day( pull flowers) Gather moments in life like you would flowers Moments dont last long; floor cut off from roots die soon Origins Attributed to the Ancient Roman poet Horace, 65 B.C.E Composed a book of poems entitled Odes What is the original purpose of language: to woo women woo means to convince or persuade; in the Renaissance the purpose of a carpe diem open was to persuade a young woman to make love. Other approaches to carpe diem encourage the reader to transcend the mundane, recognize the power of each moment, however brief, and value possibility for as long as possibility exists Academy of American Poets Gather ye rosebuds while ye may: carpe diem Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, :helios is god of sun The higher hes a-getting, (represents when you are young) The sooner will his race be run, ( the sun is setting- you are getting older) And nearer hes to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; ( It is better to be young, but also you get older time will get worst) But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, ( trying to convince the women to get married) And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. ( you wont have any prospects). He is trying to woo the woman into sleeping with him No, only to sleep with her He is saying that she is going to get old and ugly, so she should have fun while she is pretty Kind of logical If they had enough time he would court her forever, but they dont so they should make love now. Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long loves day. Thou by the Indian Ganges side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Times wingà ¨d chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust; The graves a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. 1. The rivers represent the infinite amount of space and timed 2. Infinite amount of time: example of hyperbole Vegetative love, fecund flourishing Love at the level of sensation rather than reason and emotion, which should characterize human love. Eyes= windows of the soul Forehead= intellect Does not care about brain Apollo= god of sun that drives his chariot across the heavens each day Desserts, dust, ashes= death Worms will take your virginity if you die a virgin No and Nor complete the pattern of negation of life found in these lines Dead people cannot embrace Now is repeated to drive home meaning Images suggest that youth is warm, moist, and transitory ( represents youth) The birds of prey and ball that penetrates the iron gate are violent images