I believe Robert Herrick has done a more effective way in representing the nature of art. In this poem, Delight in Disorder, it is followed by an iambic tetrameter. I found it to be that Herrick’s poem had vivid wording that captured the beauty of nature within women as both being one art, even for her messy attire. On the first and second line, he is describing the dress of a woman as “disorder” which can symbolize the appearance of her clothing. On lines one to four, Herrick had mentioned that the dress is “A lawn about the shoulder thrown” (Herrick 3). It was captivating how he used “A lawn” to describe a woman’s shoulder. According to Oxford’s dictionary, a lawn can be referring to a garden or a fine linen. In this case, “A lawn” can be portrayed as something improperly taken care of, such as the woman’s dress towards her revealing shoulders. Due to the woman’s shoulders being exposed, this leads it to be a “fine distraction” (Herrick 4) to a man. In addition, this just describes how messy art and poetry can get. They both describe how the beauty of something messy reflects a message that others might have a hard time grasping. Just as the woman in this poem, her attire is all so chaotic but the man finds it to be a taunting spell. In lines twelve to fourteen the man is bewitched by the woman’s beauty through her many pieces of clothing such as ribbons, a petticoat, dress, and shoestring. All in which are considered a complete odd appearance but attractive.
On the other hand, Ben Jonson didn’t really capture the nature of art within the poem, Still to Be Neat. In this poem it is also an iambic tetrameter and Jonson had also described a woman getting dressed, powdered, and perfumed, as mentioned in line one two three. These are what are described within women who dress up and like to look the part. In addition to Jonson’s poem, lines seven to nine described the flow within a breeze of hair that surprisingly followed by the rhythm of the poem, giving it a soft touch of what a light wind in the air might feel. Although Jonson described the “flowing hair as free,” (Jonson 9) it wasn’t as skeptical in details as Herrick portrayed in his poem.
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