CARPE DIEM DEFINICION PLUS
The differences between this poem and, for example, Sonnet 1 are immediate: here there is an abundance of adjectives (twelve, plus two adjectival phrases: de rosa y (de) azucena, line 1), plenty of colour, no wordplay (except mudará mudanza lines 13, 14), and fewer verbs. The source of the theme is classical: the Carpe diem (“Enjoy the day”) of Horace, and the Collige, virgo, rosas (“Gather, maiden, the roses”) from Ausonius. Sonnet 23, one of Garcilaso’s most famous poems, is an appeal to a young lady to enjoy the fruit of her youth before fleeting time destroys it. The rhyme scheme is ABBA, ABBA, CDE, DCE. Sometimes we talk of the two quatrains together as an octave, and the two tercets together as a sestet. each quatrain contains four lines), and two tercets (each made up of three lines). Its structure is that of two quatrains, (i.e. The form of the poem is a sonnet, made up of 14 lines, each of which is a hendecasyllable (i.e. The cold wind will wither the rose, swift time will change everything so as not to change its usual custom.
y en tanto que el cabello, que en la venaĮl dulce fruto, antes que el tiempo airadoĪs long as the colour of roses and lilies can be seen on your face, and (as long as) your ardent, chaste eyes inflame my heart and restrain it and as long your hair –singled out from veins of gold-is blown, scattered and disarranged by the wind over your beautiful, white and slender neck: gather the sweet fruit of your joyful spring before angry time covers with snow your beautiful crown (i.e.
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