Carpe Diem

Here's a little something I had to type up for English class, hope you can relate.

The poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick, explains life.  The poem tries teaching it’s readers how to live.  People forget what life offers them.  People waste their lives tampering with small minute details that mean nothing.  Although people believe they live their lives the right way, actually the poem by Robert Herrick tell them how to live.
   
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick tells humans to live life to the fullest.  Robert Herrick states through the poem, life moves fast.  Herrick wants the readers to understand they need to find what matters to them personally and follow it.  Herrick uses the example of a rose to depict the quickness of life.  Herrick writes, “And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying” (1.3-4).  Herrick uses this personification to relate a flower to the lives of humanity.  The author knows humans do not live long.  Humans live life quickly.  Herrick implies humans live like the rose, they live their lives strong and firm, smiling; but then death arrives soon after, and they wither away.  Herrick wants the readers to understand they need to seize the day, live life without regrets.

“Carpe Diem.”  Seize the day.  This Latin phrase teaches the students in the movie, Dead Poet’s Society, to live their lives without looking back.  Mr. Keating tells his students to seize the day during their youth.  Keating believes everyone needs to live his or her life out doing what they want.  He believes in freedom, he does not want people trapped inside their own regret.  Keating’s students take his words to heart, and take risks leaving school grounds at night to do something they find interesting.  Keating explains the phrase, “Carpe diem”, as freeing humans from the enslavement of others expectations of themselves.  Humans cannot live under the pressure from someone else, if her or she feels they want to do something completely different, then they can.

Seizing the day applies to the lives of everyone.  We all relate to “carpe diem.”  We cannot live under the pressures of someone else, especially if we do not have the same interests.  We live free of what others think, say, and do to us.  We live independent from one another.  Nobody controls what we do, and we cannot allow them to.  We do as we want, and we live the direct consequences from our decisions, good or bad; however we must seize the day during our prime so we do not end our lives living in regret.
   
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick calls for acting upon life.  Everyone lives his or her life differently.  They seize their own day.  Herrick tells the readers to seize the day during their youth, because he knows regret falls upon the ones who do not.  Everyone lives their lives under pressures of everyone around them.  This way of living needs to change for their betterment.