Any Two Poems

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time is a simple Carpe Diem poem. A speaker asks his audience: virgins to go get married and live before they age, wrinkle, and die. The urgency derived from the small gap of one's prime that could be lost instantly occurs as the speaker seems to wish to see more married, young couples. And I hope Dr. Forman does not mind if I discuss Robert Frost's poem, Mending Wall but here goes. Although quite the lengthy poem, Mending Wall essentially questions the need for barriers, borders, and separation between homes and ultimately human relationships. Frost compare the need for fences when tending animals such as cows; however, humans are not cows who need containment rather need interaction; Yet his neighbor constantly says, "Good fences make good neighbors," as their fence is being mended. Interestly enough, the neighbor and the speaker are polar opposites in their beliefs on this mending wall; however, Frost does open one's eyes to the bigger picture of human separation and its actual practice in modern society.