Robert Herrick Delight In Disorder

In today’s society, the media attempts to define the perfect look. The media feeds consumers digitally altered bodies and tell the population this is what's attractive. Many times these perfect looks are hard to achieve and it leaves people feeling inadequate. In Robert Herrick’s “Delight in Disorder,” he is attracted by the disheveled appearance of the female displaying that beauty can be found in flaws.

In the poem Herrick imparts the beauty of flaws. There is a beauty in disorder, and this is seen throughout the diction and the structure of the poem. There is a sense of appeal in the imperfect adjectives used to describe the women. Herrick comments on the woman’s clothing saying she has “a cuff neglectful”. The mass population would be taken aback by the carelessness in the woman’s clothing. But Herrick says there is a “fine distraction” in her dressing. This statement is an oxymoron, there is attractiveness to the fact she is sloppily dressed. She is more beautiful because she is more human than a woman that resembles a doll or a digitally altered model in a magazine.

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