Summary Of Corinna's Going A Maying By Robert Herrick
Corinna's Going A-Maying
Robert Herrick was born on August 24, 1591 and died in October 16, 1694. He was born to a London goldsmith, Nicholas, and his wife, Julian. When Herrick was fourteen months old, his father died. At age 16, Herrick began a ten-year apprenticeship with his uncle. The apprenticeship ended after only six years, and Herrick, at age twenty-two, enrolled at Saint John’s College, Cambridge. Which graduated in 1617. Herrick later became a disciple of Ben Jonson, who wrote Her Triumph, On my First Daughter/Son, and A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth. His famous work is Hesperides. A collective of religious poems printed in 1647 appear within the same book under a separate title page bearing the name Noble Numbers. …show more content…
Robert Herrick creates many noticeable shifts in the speaker's tone throughout the poem. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker is affectionate, yet slightly annoyed that his lover won't get out of bed. He refers to her as a "sweet slug-a-bed” (Line 5), which can be interpret as a person who want to do nothing but to stay in bed. He later tells her "Each flower has wept and bowed toward the east./ Above an hour since, yet you not dressed” (Line7-8) By this, he's pretty much telling her that even the flowers are up and have done something, yet she haven’t. In the next stanza, the speaker are excited and happy because it is spring “ To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora.” (Line 16-17). However in the last stanza, the speaker tone changed from happy to serious, as it is become more apparent why the speaker is so insistent on Corinna getting out of bed so they can go enjoy spring. By telling her "Our life is short, and our days run/ As fast away as does the sun”(Line 61-62), which is to illustrate how time waits for no one and how fast life can past by you if you don’t pay attention to your surrounding. So the speaker and Corrina need to enjoy their youth before this
Robert Herrick was born on August 24, 1591 and died in October 16, 1694. He was born to a London goldsmith, Nicholas, and his wife, Julian. When Herrick was fourteen months old, his father died. At age 16, Herrick began a ten-year apprenticeship with his uncle. The apprenticeship ended after only six years, and Herrick, at age twenty-two, enrolled at Saint John’s College, Cambridge. Which graduated in 1617. Herrick later became a disciple of Ben Jonson, who wrote Her Triumph, On my First Daughter/Son, and A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth. His famous work is Hesperides. A collective of religious poems printed in 1647 appear within the same book under a separate title page bearing the name Noble Numbers. …show more content…
Robert Herrick creates many noticeable shifts in the speaker's tone throughout the poem. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker is affectionate, yet slightly annoyed that his lover won't get out of bed. He refers to her as a "sweet slug-a-bed” (Line 5), which can be interpret as a person who want to do nothing but to stay in bed. He later tells her "Each flower has wept and bowed toward the east./ Above an hour since, yet you not dressed” (Line7-8) By this, he's pretty much telling her that even the flowers are up and have done something, yet she haven’t. In the next stanza, the speaker are excited and happy because it is spring “ To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora.” (Line 16-17). However in the last stanza, the speaker tone changed from happy to serious, as it is become more apparent why the speaker is so insistent on Corinna getting out of bed so they can go enjoy spring. By telling her "Our life is short, and our days run/ As fast away as does the sun”(Line 61-62), which is to illustrate how time waits for no one and how fast life can past by you if you don’t pay attention to your surrounding. So the speaker and Corrina need to enjoy their youth before this