Poetry Enrty #1

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time By Robert Herrick

            I feel like this title says a lot. The first part of the title is “To the Virgins…” This is written to people who don’t take chances or experience much in their lives therefore making them virgins. The next part of the title says, “to Make Much of Time” which is saying live your life and don’t be so cautious all the time.

            The first stanza talks about how you should cherish what you have now because the next moment you know it could be gone. Then it goes on to say in the second stanza that every day you get closer and closer to heaven. This gives you even more of a reason to live your life and try new things all the time. As the poem progresses it talks about how your youth is the best time of your life, even though you’ll go through things that aren’t easy. It only makes you a better person. In the last stanza it expresses that you must use your time you have in life and not regret anything. As you go through your life you’ll lose your youth and you don’t want to have to stay stuck in one place because you were never adventurous.

I wandered lonely as a cloud By William Wadsworth

            The poet is thinking about himself writing poetry and how he must think and wonder to figure out what he wants to write about. He finds himself staring at these daffodils and how they are so blissful. They dance in the breeze and all through the day and night. He talks about how there must be ten thousand of them that just dance and move. All these daffodils make him inspired to write his poetry unlike him sitting at home on his couch, but if he thinks of the daffodils he is inspired to write once again.

Annabel Lee By Edgar Allen Poe

            The narrator is in love with Annabel Lee, which is a maiden that lives in a kingdom by the sea. Annabel and the narrator have been in love forever; since they were little. Annabel Lee was the most loving person and loved with so much love.

            The angels of the high heavens wished for the love between these two to be taken away. By taking this love away this killed Annabel Lee because that’s what she lived for. Annabel Lee’s death saddens the narrator and he will never leave her side. He will always love her whether she’s physically with him or not.

            Everything that the narrator sees reminds him of Annabel Lee, like the stars and the moon makes him think of her and her beauty. When night comes he lies down next to her tomb and falls asleep with her by the sea, which is where they spent most of their time together.