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Centuries apart Robert Herrick and Robert Frost wrote poems illustrating the brevity of life. “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Herrick and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Frost are the two poems which address the limited time humanity, ....

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.... but in a short amount of time the flower will wilt and die, and the youth will be an adult on a passage to death. The second symbol used by Herrick and Frost is the day: youth is dawn, adulthood is midday, and death is the setting of the sun. From the day man is born, he is dying. In the second stanza, Herrick illustrates the shortness of a day; the higher in the sky the sun gets, the closer to setting it gets. In line 7, “So dawn goes down to day,” (990) Frost also addresses the limited time man has in life. Frost’s choice of the word down to describe the action of the sun helps to make the symbol of the day more clear, by ....