LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Question
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Time passes quickly
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Life is short
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Flowers dies easily.
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A person picking flowers
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” the imagery relies primarily on sight imagery. The poem contains several images such as “the same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying” (Herrick, 3, 4). The images are memorable because they are in the forms of hyperboles and metaphors.
Detailed explanation-2: -Line 2: The speaker reminds the virgins that time ("Old time") is passing and that flowers may die soon. Time doesn’t literally fly, so flight is a metaphor for the passage of time. While the flowers are a metaphor for marriage, they also seem to be a metaphor for human life, which can be just as fleeting.
Detailed explanation-3: -’The Flower That Smiles Today’, in summary, is a poem about the brevity of all things – all hopes, desires, and delights the world has to offer are short-lived and doomed to die. Everything is fleeting and transitory.
Detailed explanation-4: -And this same flower that smiles today. Tomorrow will be dying. The speaker elaborates on the advice of the first two lines, telling the virgins that “this flower” will die soon – although he probably means that everything eventually dies.