Corinna’s Going A-Maying (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Herrick
- First Published: 1648
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue/pastoral
- Genres: Poetry, Pastoral, Dramatic monologue, Cavalier poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Youth, Life and death, Time, Spring, Morning
The Poem
The title of this poem is particularly interesting in that it asserts unequivocably that Corinna will take part in the activities of May morning, although there is no certainty in the text that she will do so. The poem is a dramatic monologue, with the lover-speaker seeking to persuade his sweetheart to get out of bed and join the other youths “to fetch in May.” Her reactions to his entreaties are unrecorded. She remains no more than a name, as the interest of the poem resides in the speaker’s rhetorical strategies to work his will upon her.
The opening...
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