“Carpe Diem”
The rallying cry of their classroom is “carpe diem,” popularized as “seize the day,” although more literally translated as “pluck the day,” referring to the gathering of moments like flowers, suggesting the ephemeral quality of life, as in Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” which begs readers to live life to its full potential, singing of the fleeting nature of life itself:
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.”
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to a short period. While we
speak, time is envious and
is running away from us.
Seize the day, trusting
little in the future.”
Since Horace, poets have regularly adapted the sentiment of carpe diem as a means to several ends, most notably for procuring the affections of a beloved by pointing out the fleeting nature of life, as in Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress“:
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And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power.”
Not all carpe diem poems instruct, however. The poem “The Layers” by Stanley Kunitz offers advice through the poet’s first hand experience:
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the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.”
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as if remembering the bright unbroken planet
we once came from,
to which we will never
be permitted to return.
We are amazed how hurt we are.
We would give anything for what we have.”
It lives less in present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
than in the past. The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing—
Too present to imagine.”
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Answer.
That you are here – that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.”
Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2018/08/carpe-diem-by-poets.html
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