delight in disorder

Delight in Disorder
Robert Herrick

This poem uses many words such as distraction, confusedly, and careless to maintain the disorder portion of the title. The delight comes from the speaker admiring the woman. The woman wears all of these types of clothes that the speaker mentions and he states imperfections about them. For example in lines three and four, the speaker says "A lawn about the shoulders thrown|Into a fine distraction." The theme of the poem relates to the title of the poem. The theme being that beauty can be seen despite imperfections. The fact that there was no rhyme scheme and the phrases themselves varied in length also helped to enhance the feeling of disorder.
The phrase "wild civility" is an oxymoron. The phrase which it is in presents a picture of a poorly tied shoestring. Though there is a form, and the shoe is tied, though there is also a sense of disorder in the sense that it is maybe a loose or floppy tie. This just allows for another image of disorder.