"Delight in Disorder" Robert Herrick

This poem is about a man who likes for his woman to be disorganized. I think it is attractive, and, for lack of better words, he gets turned on when a girl looks messy. Throughout the poem, the speaker says things like "a lawn about the shoulders thrown," "an erring lace,"a neglected cuff," "ribbons... flow[ing] confusedly," "tempestuous petticoat," and "a careless shoestring." These words give the image of a disheveled woman. In the 12th line, he uses the oxymoron of a "wild civilty," which I took as an elegant woman with a wild side. He follows this line saying "Do more bewich me than when art is too precise in every part. When I think of art that is not precise, I think of Van Gogh and his somewhat swirly paintings. He is saying that he would rather have an unorganized girl with a great personality, than a proper stickler. The varying sentence structure of long and short sentences may be representing the disorganization of the woman.