Volume 5, Issue 11
Frequency: 12 Issue per year
Paper Submission: Throughout the Month
Acceptance Notification: Within 2 days
Areas Covered: Multidisciplinary
Accepted Language: Multiple Languages
Journal Type: Online (e-Journal)
ISSN Number:
2582-8568
This research paper compares two poems dealing with the idea of “Carpe Diem" that means "seize the day". The poems are composed by two famous poets: the British lyricist Robert Herrick (1591-1674) from the seventeenth-century, and the Lahjian Arab lyrical popular poet Yahiya Omar from the eighteenth century (died 1754). It shows how the two classic poets from different culture dealt with the Latin idea "Carpe Diem". At the level of this idea, the glorified songwriters the Arab Yahiya Omar meets with the English Robert Herrick inviting young people to seize the time. The Latin idea runs in most of their poetry to warn younger girls and boys not to waste the most precious commodities of life: time, youth and love. It walks direct and joyful in Omar's poem, but serious and covered with symbols and metaphors in the lines of Herrick.
Hesperides, Arabia, Lahj, Yafia’, Hadramout, Yemen, Baroda, Abu Mua'jib