Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Delight in Disorder

I'm unsure as to whether I've interpreted this poem correctly, but because this unit is centered around love, I think Robert Herrick's Delight in Disorder is an extended metaphor for a key aspect if love, loving someone's "disorder". If a person truly loves someone, it is said that they love their faults as well as their successes. This can be paralleled to wedding vows, "in sickness and in health". The poem states, "A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility; do more bewitch me than when art is too precise in every part." I think those words are beautiful. No person is perfect, so you can't love someone for their perfections, and anyone can admire another's successes. Loveing a person's mistakes and failures is true love. Loving someone despite their downfalls is true love. This is the theme of the poem.

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