Analysis Of The Poem 'Much Of Time' By Robert Herrick

Today, men objectify women on social media, males’ lust over girls on their comments. Readers expect back in late 1600’s for men to have been courteous but maybe not.To the virgins to make much of time, by Robert Herrick is quite a laconic, pessimistic, and impatient poem, because the author seems to be in loss of hope when it comes to love after a certain period of a person’s life. The poet almost seems to objectify women and see them useful only when they are at their prime. Robert Herrick writes about calling out all the virgins and young woman to experience life at its fullest and to not be coy but to open up and meet new people and most importantly to find love before time passes them by. The poem was written during the 1600’s, during this time the black plague was present, all kinds of diseases were going around like typhus, smallpox, and tuberculosis, whooping cough, and influenza. There was so much disease yet no cure to be discovered by physicians. People ended up blind, deaf, they were even left with severe scars and bone loss in result of the harsh diseases. For this reason the poet might have felt the urge to warn the virgins to find a husband and to rush them before they caught a disease “And this same flower that smiles …show more content…
“For having lost but once your prime, you may forever tarry.”() If the women did not get married once their prime time was over they were going to live in regret for the rest of their lives, Robert was actually good in his word choice in manipulating women into his plan, he knew that would scare them because no one likes to live in regret. The women weren’t sure that would be the case for them but they wouldn’t want to find out, so to just be safe they would fall into pressure and end up marring a man without much thought put into the relationship. It’s almost as if they rather be living in misery with the wrong man rather than in