Carpe Diem                   Tichborne's Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne and Sonnet 115 by Edna St. Vincent Millay are two romantic poems that use nature-imagery as a metaphoric expression. The events inspired to write these poems were the loss of a loved one and the loss of one's own life. Even though the poems are two totally different situations, they both express the importance and similar outcomes of life and how it is relative to nature.         In Tichborne's Elegy, …showed first 75 words of 648 total…

…showed last 75 words of 648 total…dying life that has no way to get out or re-live. Sonnet 115 tells the reader that sometimes when everything is going wrong and you blame everyone else, you should take time and look at your own actions. The lesson to learn in Tichborne's Elegy is never let your life pass you by. Both poems strongly combine and suggest how you should not live you life, and how you should love yourself and seize the day.