[on Julia’s (a girl’s name) dresses]
Whenas
in silk my Julia goes
[While his crush is
wearing this pleasant soft, shimmering material and walking]
Then, then, me thinks, how sweetly slows
[The second then is for
emphasis, and sweetly flows is like pouring beautifully]
That liquefaction of her clothes.
[The silk is so
beautifully flowing he’s saying it looks like a liquid.]
Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see
[Cast is a connotation,
witches and fishermen cast things. In here he means it in the fishermen sense,
only he is not the predator he is the victim]
That brave vibration, each way free
[That refers to the
clothes, brave is another word for handsome or beautiful. By vibration he means
that: when a fisherman casts his bait in the water, it vibrates to attract its
prey. And that since he is the victim, he is attracted by the vibration]
O, how that glittering taketh me!
Subject: Julia
Object:
Julia is the object of the speaker’s gaze
Setting: Probably in a ball, or it could be at home
Theme: Women’s
attraction/ Men’s lust
Tone: Sensuous,
obsessive, celebratory
Speaker: The
person Obsessed in Julia
Poet: Robert
Herrick
A little Description of the poem: The writer is probably a voyeur. He is a stalker of some sort but he definitely has an obsession with Julia. So it’s not love it’s obsession. Anyways, the writer starts out as a voyeur and Julia as an Exhibit [someone being watched without the knowledge] But later on she realizes he’s watching and becomes an Exhibitionist [which is someone who knows he is being watched, likes it and therefore flaunts it] we can tell she was showing it off by reading “each way free”
Style of poem: 2
versus only, with 3 lines in each. The whole first verse rhymes separately, and
the whole second verse rhymes alone.