“Still to be neat, still to be dressed” by Ben Jonson and Delight and Disorder by Robert Herrick are two poems that exemplify similar themes. In “Still to be neat, still to be dressed” the speaker discusses how women portray themselves in an unreal manner. While in Delight and Disorder the speaker implies that there is a sense of beauty in disorder. The theme in “Still to be neat, still to be dressed” is that true beauty occurs when women are natural, and the theme in Delight and Disorder is beauty is most attractive when it is a mess. The two poems illustrate similar themes of beauty, but both use different literary devices to depict this theme.
The title of “Still to be neat, still to be dressed” implies to the reader that the poem is written in a neat and organized style. At first glance the poem’s structure appears disorganized, but the arrangement of the poem actually helps explain the theme of beauty. In the first stanza the speaker describes how a lady hides her beauty in the way she puts on makeup and the way she dresses. In the first stanza the speaker goes on to say, “Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is sweet, all is not sound.” The meaning behind these lines is that although women may look like art, what might the makeup be hiding. Then in the second stanza the speaker describes how he/she wishes women would represent themselves. The speaker says, “Robes …show more content…
This is done to show woman that it is acceptable to break away from the normal standards. In the beginning of the