Charles Simic

Charles Simic An interpretation of Charles Simic’s poem ‘Cabbage’ is as a parody of Andrew Marvell’s ‘To My Coy Mistress’ and John Donne’s ‘The Flea.’  These are two well-known seventeenth-century carpe diem love poems (The Explicator).  I choose this poem because it is one of his most famous.  Some of Simic’s best known works challenge … Read more