Robert Herrick Poem

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A man’s fantasy makes up for a conscious realization that there are shortcomings in the sexual department. Between fragile egos, and the need to hold power; the defense to protect himself against this inferiority, the speaker in his dream state ignores his own moral high grounds to put in place a more sinister, but sexually powerful man that can enthrall the objects of his desires and take back the power he thinks he has lost. By using an organic living vine, the speaker uses this to make his dream seem more of a natural reality. Robert Herrick, in his 1648 poem The Vine, expresses the speaker’s psychic double between his waking and dream self through the use of phallic symbols, and a castration anxiety to express his fear of loss.
In the poem Robert Herrick’s speaker creates a double for himself between his awakened conscious and his subconscious fantasy thru the use of two predominant phallic …show more content…
“Enthralled my dainty Lucia.” (4) This domination through his Lucia in the vine, not only holds her in his bondage, but also holds a bit of sadism by holding her by force. This is because he inflicts pain upon her when he enthralls her deriving this pleasure through her pain. Yet when he wakes he takes a bit of pleasure in the pain of not being able to perform by the hardened stock he wakes up with. Another phallic symbol the speaker uses to further this strong image he creates of himself in his dream is through a “Young Bacchus ravished by his tree.” (13) Bacchus was the god of wine, a tree wrapped in a vine. Much like the speaker, the tree could be his stock or moral self. The vine on the other hand is his godlike state that wraps around his reality of ravishing this woman. Which comes into conflict with the truth of him not being able to inflict pleasure upon her. Thus, by using a godly reference the male takes the power that one believes the gods

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