Analysis Of To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time By William Wordsworth

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1. Show how reading one specific poem caused you to change or modify an opinion you once had. Use a specific detail of the poem to explain your growth. While reading Robert Herrick “To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time” I modified my opinions on living life. There are a few themes in the poem; the first is to live life to the fullest because we get older, change, less healthy, and less active. The second theme is humans in comparison to the natural world. The simile used “And this same flower that smiles today/ tomorrow will be dying” Shows that flowers have there blooming time like humans have their prime, but soon that flower will die just like humans will. My opinion on life changed because of the suggestions the poem offers. Life is not guaranteed, so we need to live everyday like it’s our last one. I have always had the …show more content…

It has a distinct structure with four equal stanzas of six lines with an ABABCC rhyme scheme. Each line has four iambs, which makes the meter an iambic tetrameter. The poem is well organized therefore easy to read and follow. Langston Hughes poem written in 1951 is the complete opposite of a distant structured poem. His poem is Free Verse that follows a natural rhyme of speech, and also more about a musical experience instead of a story. The poem doesn’t have a strict rhyme scheme, but the lines that aren’t song lyrics are rhyming couplets, for example “Down on Lenox Avenue the other night/ by the pale dull pallor of an old gas light.” Out of the two poems, Wordsworth poem is better for several different reasons. I like structured poems that rhyme because the rhyming aspect makes it more fun to read. I also like the rhyme scheme, even though it’s common, it’s entertaining and helps keep my attention. Langston Hughes is more memorable because it has that jazz feel that stays in your head after reading the poem. It makes you want to sing it and snap along to the

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