What word could be substituted for "gather" :
GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Garner
100
Shall I compare you to a summer day? You’re lovelier and milder.
Sonnet 18
100
What is the meaning of the first stanza?
Take advantage of your youth while you can
200
"And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying"
Personification
200
What does the glorious lamp of heaven represent
The sun
200
Herrick is insisting that virgins abstain from ________ their youth: "wasting"
Profligate
200
Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow.
"Whoso List To Hunt" by Sir Thomas Wyatt"
200
What is the meaning of the third stanza?
Make good decisions in your youth and use your time wisely
300
What iambic meter is the poem written in
Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter with Catalexis
300
What does the gathering of rosebuds represent?
Taking advantage of opportunities
300
What vocabulary word could be substituted for "coy":
Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may go marry
Recreant
300
"Queen Virtue’s Court, which some call Stella’s face, Prepared by Nature’s choicest furniture"
Sir Philip Sidney: “Queen Virtue’s Court” (Sonnet 9)
300
What is the meaning of the fourth stanza?
Do not be recreant; marry in your youth’s prime
If not, you may forever be without a partner.
400
"And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying"
Alliteration
400
What does the flower represent?
A maiden
400
Herrick believes that one's youth is the __________ of their life
quientessence
400
"Her golden tresses, She doth attyre vnder a net of gold"
Edmund Spenser: “What guile is this” (Sonnet 37)
400
What is the meaning of the third Stanza?
You are already approaching death and finishing lifes race
500
"The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting"
Allusion to Apollo
500
What does warm temperature represent?
Youth and fertility
500
What vocabulary word could be substituted for "tarry"
"For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry"
Rue
500
That time of year thou may'st in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Sonnet 73 Shakespeare
500
What is a similar phrase related to Herrick's message?