Comparing Poems 'Song' To Robert Herrock's Song

The poem written by Robert Herrick called “ To the Virgins to make sure of time” has the theme of Carpe Diem in its connotation. The author tries to persuade the reader to live life to fullest and not to waste time in things that are not important. Robert talks about the concept of time and uses nature to get his point across. In the contrary to the poem “ Song” written by Sir John Suckling. First of all, the poem starts of by expressing that time is and will pass by. For example he mentions in the first stanza lines three to five “Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying”. He uses nature to show that just like flowers with time people lose their beauty and die. Through the poem he is trying to influence her to lose her virginity to him. We can convey that she is a conservative person , because he continues to make a point that she should live in the moment. In past years having your virginity until marriage was a must , but in today’s society it is a choice. The author wanted to live his life with no thing that was not done because he wanted her. On the contrary to the poem written by Sir John Suckling he was obsessively pessimist over love.
Furthermore, “ Song” talks and describes the mistress as pale and cold.
For example, he says “ Why so dull and mute young sinner? Prithee why so mute?”, meaning that he is not as interested in her as Robert is in “ The virgins”. As well as he does not express himself with good connotation of her. Robert uses nature and flowers to express his feelings and in a way his admiration of her to do everything together. In comparison to John : John speaks to his love interest with a petty pessimistic tone of love. Sir Suckling uses religion to get the point across that if he can have her “Nothing can make her; The devil take her.” This shows us that he has given up in love and has decided that if he can not have her no one
can.
Moreover, both poems have the overall theme of love and Carpe Diem. The two poems have many things in common. Robert and John talk about love and its simple forms of needing a women to fulfil their needs with the human world. They both need women to have a happy life and to feel like they have done everything that they could in this life. They both express their worry about time . Robert and John as well care for their lover enough to want to be with her for the rest of time.
In conclusion, both poems called “Song” and “ To the virgins” use and contemplate the theme of carpe diem. They both have an interest for their lovers and will go to great length for them.