Delight In Disorder- What A Guy!?

Robert Herrick, author of the poem "Delight in Disorder", described what every girl wants to be told is true about her. Women are most beautiful when they don't mean to be. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and this speaker believes that imperfections are more beautiful than perfection. In the subject's disorder, she is even more attractive to the speaker. "I see a wild civility; Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part" (Herrick 979). Women strive to be perfect for men most of the time, is it nice to know that we are noticed more when we aren't trying. Through the imagery of the disorderly clothing and appearance of a women, the author is able to show how disorder can be attractive. To him, the imperfections are perfect. The clothes described as "a fine distraction" "neglected" and "careless" at first, at the end come to mean wild beauty.