Robert Herrick: Poems

INTRODUCTION OF POEM TO DIANEME ITS PURPOSE AND THEME

INTRODUCTION ABOU THE POEM ITS PURPOSE AND THEME

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I think the theme is that beauty has no lasting life. It eventually fades. The speaker warns that beauty and I suppose youth are merely transient,

"Sunk from the tip of your soft ear,

Will last to be a precious stone

When all your world of beauty's gone."

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