Is the poem "To Daffodils" a cavalier poem? Explain why or why not.?

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attain'd his noon.

Stay, stay,

Until the hasting day

Has run

But to the even-song;

And, having pray'd together, we

Will go with you along.



We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you, or anything.

We die

As your hours do, and dry

Away,

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew,

Ne'er to be found again.

Is the poem "To Daffodils" a cavalier poem? Explain why or why not.?
the 'cavalier poets' were a group of lyric poets who fought on the king's side during the english civil war. any poem written by a cavalier poet is a cavalier poem.



this poem is by robert herrick. robert herrick is nearly always considered a cavalier poet (there is a tiny dispute over whether he was hardcore - it isn't worth bothering with). so, yes, this is a cavalier poem.



it is a typical cavalier poem, since it focuses on sensual pleasure and how brief that is. 'carpe diem' is a typical cavalier theme (probably the big theme in cavalier poetry).



so it is both a cavalier poem, and a typical cavalier poem.
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