Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Delight in Disorder / Robert Herrick



“Do more bewitch me than when art is too precise in every part,” (Herrick 979). This last sentence connects to the first.  The two sentences are connected and could almost be one sentence if they were connected.  The middle of the poem is describing the articles that he sees that are in disorder.  The diction of the passage makes it sound like he is praising one person. He is describing what he likes about her appearance.  It could be construed that he has seen her across a room and is commenting on her to a friend.  It also sounds like he is trying to alleviate her embarrassment about her dress.  He finds the small mistakes more attractive than a perfectly dressed woman.  Every two lines rhyme.  It is a very rhythmic poem.

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