Assignment: - 1 "Exploring the Essence of 'Carpe Diem' unveiling Passion and Fulfillment in Metaphysical poetry"
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"Exploring the Essence of 'Carpe Diem' unveiling Passion and Fulfillment in Metaphysical poetry"
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❍ Metaphysical Poetry
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Submitted to: - Smt. Sujata Binoy Gardi, Department of English, MKBU, Bhavnagar.
Date of Submission: - 01st December, 2023
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Pluck the day, enjoy, seize, use, make use of....
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Carpe Diem (Origin, Meaning, Use)
Carpe diem, (Latin: “pluck the day” or “seize the day”) phrase used by the Roman poet Horace to express the idea that one should enjoy life while one can. Carpe diem is part of Horace’s injunction “carpe diem Quam minimum cédula postero,” which appears in his Odes (I.11), published in 23 BCE. It can be translated literally as “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one.” The phrase carpe diem has come to stand for Horace’s entire injunction, and it is more widely known as “seize the day. "This sentiment has been expressed in many literatures before and after Horace. It appears in ancient Greek literature, especially lyric poetry, and it intersects with the teachings of the Greek philosopher Epicurus and what would come to be known as Epicureanism. In English literature it was a particular preoccupation of poets during the 16th and 17th centuries. Among the Cavalier poets, Robert Herrick expressed a sharp sense of carpe diem in the first stanza of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (included in Hesperides, published 1648):
Carpe diem, (Latin: “pluck the day” or “seize the day”) phrase used by the Roman poet Horace to express the idea that one should enjoy life while one can. Carpe diem is part of Horace’s injunction “carpe diem Quam minimum cédula postero,” which appears in his Odes (I.11), published in 23 BCE. It can be translated literally as “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one.” The phrase carpe diem has come to stand for Horace’s entire injunction, and it is more widely known as “seize the day. "This sentiment has been expressed in many literatures before and after Horace. It appears in ancient Greek literature, especially lyric poetry, and it intersects with the teachings of the Greek philosopher Epicurus and what would come to be known as Epicureanism. In English literature it was a particular preoccupation of poets during the 16th and 17th centuries. Among the Cavalier poets, Robert Herrick expressed a sharp sense of carpe diem in the first stanza of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (included in Hesperides, published 1648):
Andrew Marvell, the most prominent of the Metaphysical poets, deployed the sentiment through a lover’s impatience in “To His Coy Mistress” (published posthumously in 1681). It begins with its speaker chiding the mistress of the poem’s title:
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
But time is short, the poem continues, so
Now let us sport us while we may.
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour.
Then languish in his slow-chapped power.
The earliest known uses of carpe diem in print in English date to the early 19th century. Robert Frost took on the subject with his poem “Carpe Diem,” first published in 1938. In it children are encouraged by a figure called Age to “‘Be happy, happy, happy / And seize the day of pleasure.’” By the 21st century the phrase could be found in the names of catering companies, gyms, and educational travel organizations.
Metaphysical Poetry
In the book “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1179-1781)”, the author Samuel Johnson made the first use of the word Metaphysical Poetry. He used the term Metaphysical poets to define a loose group of the poets of the 17th century. The group was not formal and most of the poets put in this category did not know or read each other’s writings. This group’s most prominent poets include John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Richard Crashaw, and others. He noted in his writing that these poets had the same style of wit and conceit in their poetry.
Examples of Carpe Diem PoemsFirst of all, Holy Sonnet 10 is an excellent presentation of a Carpe Dieme and of the thought process behind
the ideas of it. Holy Sonnet 10 represents a so-called obsession with death that the people living in the time
frame acquired. They represented their feelings and suppressed lives with their poetry. The lifestyle of a
person living during a civil war is an intense day-by-day struggle to live. Every second there is a chance that
you will not live to see the next day. This inspired the authors to fill their poems with passion and a
spontaneous attitude. Their attitude was not only spontaneous, but also fulfilling to their own personal
nature. Carpe Diem was the reaction to the general population's life span decreasingSecond of all, To His Coy Mistress, is another Carpe Dime poem. It shows the time diminishing in the
populous. As most other Carpe Dime poems, To His Coy Mistress, deals with the fulfillment of ones
dreams and the taking over of ones life. This poem relates to a recent movie that was just released, American
Beauty. In the movie the husband gets sick of sitting around and waiting for his own death. So he takes
control of his life and does what makes him happy, and with little dismay, he was killed. He died happy and
fulfilled, just like what the man into His Coy Mistress is trying to say. He wants to experience the pleasures
of life before his time comes and Worms will get her virginity.
Last of all, Song, by John Dunne, portrays both of these elements of mental status. A strong indication of,
Song, relating to Carpe Diem and Metaphysical poetry are the techniques and devices used within them.
Metaphysical conceits are a readily used device found in Metaphysical poems. A Metaphysical Conceit is an
ingenious and unusual comparison.
conclusion:
As Metaphysical and Carpe Diem poems are sometimes used together in such ways as Song, by John Dunne, they can also be picked apart as separate and intricate poems by themselves. Metaphysical conceits and paradoxes bring the life and character out, influenced by the reader and his intellect; so, as Carpe Diem poems bring out the full-blossomed lives that were lived to the fullest degree possible. Both poem writing styles were unique and rebellious to their time frames, and created the opening for a more open-minded population that would lead to many more discoveries and innovations which would not have been possible without the poet's creativity and outpouring of feeling.
work cited:
Carpe Diem and Living Life to the Fullest. (2017, Apr 16). Retrieved from Carpe Diem Definition Essay Example - PHDessay.com
What is Metaphysical Poetry? (Definition and Characteristics) - Literary English
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