Wednesday, October 5, 2011
"Delight in Disorder" by Robert Herrick - Personification
"A sweet disorder in the dress / Kindles in clothes a wantonness." This poem is loaded with personification! First, these lines give disorder the ability to kindle something. Then, "An erring lace...Enthralls the crimson stomacher." Obviously, laces cannot literally enthrall anything else. However, the personification of these nouns gives a better description of appearance than without such use of personification. When the author uses words such as kindles and enthralls, I see truly enhancing characteristics in the attire. I can understand what he is saying when he says that disorder can be more attractive than exactness. And due to his explanation, I agree with him! With "perfection," I tend to notice more errors and snobiness. Without personification, this poem would lack strong rhetoric.
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