Carpe Diem

Tichborne's Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne and Sonnet 115 by Edna St. Vincent Millay are two romantic poems that use nature-imagery as a metaphoric expression. The events inspired to write these poems were the loss of a loved one and the loss of one's own life. Even though the poems are two totally different situations, they both express the importance and similar outcomes of life and how it is relative to nature.

In Tichborne's Elegy, nature is used to give the alternative, yet dreary outcomes in the speakers life. "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares" defines that the prime of his youth is cold and lost forever. The speakers life turned from a golden ... Showed first 120 words of 669 Size (words) ...

... Continuing with another 115 out of 669 Size (words) ...uses antithical statements, and in Sonnet 115 the speaker uses direct symbols for all her thoughts towards herself and her feelings.

The images in the two poems can be read differently in numerous ways; especially if you take the background of the writer into account. Since Tichborne wrote the poem before his execution, the idea might come to mind that the only reason he couldn't experience life to the fullest, is because he was captured and locked away. The first thing we know about Sonnet 115 is that the speaker has lost a love and foretold it happening. Throughout the rest of the poem one might think that the woman is just ...Essay still continues 100 more words...