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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe seventeenth century love poetry has been well known with some of
love and lyric poets with the concept of Carpe Diem in their great works. The
Carpe Diem concept in Carpe Diem poetry stresses the idea to seize the day due to
the shortness of life in order to persuade the addressee to take action while they
still have a chance. Life should be lived to the fullest everyday, just like it was
going to be the last. The ideas of aging, decay, and death are included in order to
underscore the urgenc y of the situation or to play upon the addressee?s fears. The
concept of Carpe Diem interests me so that I choose to find out in what way it is
expressed by some of the seventeenth century poets. They are John Donne in "The
Anniversary", Andrew Marvell in "To His Coy Mistress", Ben Jonson in "Song:
To Celia I (Come, my Celia, let us prove)" and Robert Herrick in "To the Virgins
to Make Much of Time" and "Corinna?s Going A-Maying." To find out how each
poet in those poems delivers the Carpe Diem concept in their own ways, I collect
data by using library and Internet researches. I also use literary approach and
employ literary tools to do the analysis. After doing the analysis of those five
poems, I find out that the poets use the elements of poetry such as diction or the
choice of words, imagery, tone, allusion, figures of speech including irony,
metaphor, simile, personification, symbol, hyperbole, understatement,
synecdoche, and metonymy. They are used by each poet in the poems to show that
the Carpe Diem concept focuses on time; by giving a sense that life is short and
time is fleeting so that taking chances in life should be done then.