Corinna's Going a-Maying

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"Corinna's Going a-Maying" is a 17th-century carpe diem poem by Robert Herrick that celebrates springtime festivity and urges seizing the pleasures of youth.

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instanceOf lyric poem
poem
addressee Corinna NERFINISHED
approximateCompositionDate c. 1620s–1640s
author Robert Herrick NERFINISHED
centralIdea youth should seize present pleasures before time and age arrive
countryOfOrigin England
culturalContext May Day customs in early modern England
firstLine Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn
form lyric
genre love poetry
hasCharacter Corinna NERFINISHED
the speaker
includedIn Hesperides NERFINISHED
influenceOn later carpe diem poetry criticism
language English
literaryDevice alliteration
imagery
metaphor
personification
literaryMovement Cavalier poetry
English Renaissance NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod 17th century
meter iambic meter
motif Maying
flowers
garlands
rural festivity
sunrise
youthful lovers
narrativeVoice male speaker
publicationType poetry collection
publicationYear 1648
rhymeScheme variable stanzaic rhyme
setting May Day
spring morning
studiedIn English literature courses
Renaissance poetry courses
theme carpe diem
fertility and renewal
seizing the day
springtime festivity
time and mortality
youth and transience
tone festive
sensual
urgent
yearWritten 17th century

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Robert Herrick wrotePoem Corinna's Going a-Maying