A Possible Allusion to Marlowe’s ‘Song’ (‘Come Live with Me and Be My Love’) In Herrick’s ‘to A Rose. Song’
2018; Oxford University Press; Volume: 65; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/notesj/gjy019
ISSN1471-6941
Autores ResumoHERRICK’S ‘To the Rose. Song’ (no. 238 in Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. (1648)) is a sort of disgraced twin to Waller’s much-admired ‘Song’ (‘Goe, lovely Rose—’). The poems share similar opening lines, the idea of the rose acting as messenger, and an initial tone of parlor gentility that is surprisingly undermined.1 In Waller’s ‘Song’, substantively a traditional version of carpe diem, the shift in tone occurs in line 16, when the rose is suddenly told to perish (‘Then die …’). In Herrick’s poem, the shift occurs in the second stanza’s description of a sadistic sexual fantasy. Here is ‘To the Rose. Song’ in full:
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