I think that this poem is about the wantonness of clothes. I think that the writer believes there is a delight in both the thought that the wantonness of a woman's clothes might mean a similar wantonness in bed. There is also a fear of it, of the "wild civility" of it all.
Giuseppina ScottoDiCarlo
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the poem has a lot to do with clothes but im just confused about the title to begin with. what could the disorder be?
Okay I'll try and explain it as best I can. The idea of delight has two meanings in the poem. 1) The clothing/costume and 2) The manners/morals....To me the sensual delight is for the little things in life, the things we don't really think about.
The carelessness described gives the final grace to the objects described. The graces described of clothing is described from a single instint in time. The figure described really doesn't exist, the speaker is really trying to prescribe the perfect female through his descriptions. The biggest thing I got was: GRACE IS THE KEY TO HAVING BEAUTY.
key definitions: kindles- to arouse/light up
erring- going astray/wrong
entrall- to enslave
tempestuous petticoat- i think means her clothing moving around
bewitch- cast spell
hope this helps
This poem is very strange becasue when you first read it you think that there's deep meaning in the words you don't know. But when you look more into it you find that this poem is really only about clothing and how it can bring delight to a person in its randomness. I don't really find any hidden meaning in it except for that fact that we should find delightness in random miss matched things. We should loosen up and learn to go with the flow. There is one ironic line in this poem where it says, "I see a wild civility." I find this ironic because civility is formal politness and courtesy in speech or behavior. If is is wild than it can't be civility. THe author must mean that he see's a nekw ind of politness and it's a new trend.
stomacher- V-shaped peice of decorative colth worn over chest and stomach.
lawn- a fine linen or cotton fabric used for making clothes.
Herrick is just trying to say is that everything that you throw in your body is covering up your real beauty. He also believes that he would much rather have craziness than perfection because to him perfection seems too artifical and he does not like that. Herrick likes all the distractions and misgivings much more than someone who is proper in everyway, I think he is like that because someone who is perfect in every way is boring and predictable.
I also believe that Herrick is trying to say that being perfect is not always a good thing. The main idea that he is trying to get across is that beauty is more attractive when it's less perfect.
I think Herrick is saying that perfection is not as beautiful as flaws they are what make us human and are more interesting that if we were all the same and never made a mistake."Kindles in clothes a wanttonness" is saying there is a flame in there clothes referencing lust for the person in the dress in a disorderly fashion.
Caitlin McCarty
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