Living_In_Sin

Living In Sin What is a carpe diem poem' The Latin words carpe diem means seize the day. In a carpe diem poem, the narrator of the poem tries to get the position across that life is minuscule, and you should take hold of what you can before it passes you by. Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” is one of the most renowned carpe diem poems ever written. Everything in this poem screams carpe diem poem. We have also read Rich’s poem “Living in Sin” which is just the opposite of Marvell’s poem. It is spoken from a women point of view that seized the day and now she is wondering why she made the choice that she made. The next few words are going to prove that “Living in Sin” is an anti-carpe diem poem. In a carpe diem poem, the speaker is usually a man speaking to the person he loves, telling them all of the things that they could have, if they would come with him. “To His Coy Mistress”, is broken up into three different paragraphs. In the opening of his poem, Marvell starts out by talking about poem, diem, carpe, life, sin, living, day, while, poems, now, mistress, marvell, few, coy, very, two, time, thought, rich, love, lines, go, different, anti-carpe, written, women, tone, style, should, seized, rich’s, reality, nothing, morning, marvell’s