To the Virgins

The Love poem, written by poet, Robert Herrick tries to tell women to get married while they are still young and beautiful. Beauty is here for a short while, once times passes by you get old and your beauty is gone. The author makes the poem more interesting by making the flower and glorious lamp to symbolize other things. Using the two symbols the author makes the poem more stunning. In the poem, the flower …

…through out the day can represent a women life passing each day. In the poem, “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time” the author uses a flower to represent a woman, and a sun to symbolize time. The two words, women, and time are the two most important words. The whole poem is about a woman losing her beauty as time passes on. The author using these two symbols made the poem more intruding.