"Delight in Disorder"

"A sweet disorder in the dress

Kindles in clothes a wantonness" (1-2).

"Delight in Disorder" by Robert Herrick was the epitome of a poem I that I read and immediately wonder if it is really as easy as it seems.  Oh, and the poem is a sonnet - I have gotten really good at making that connection!  Wantonness is a very strange, yet suiting word for this situation.  See, I kept staring at the first option and trying to figure out how it related, but we want the noun version - a lustful person, usually a woman (they are in a dress, PLEASE be a woman).

I think that this poem uses metonomic imagery?  Since the disorder is delightful (Emily Dickinson would agree), we also have a paradox in order.  Time to prove those two theories in the cone of realism.

The imagery is not really able to be proven unless you just read it.  Really, do you not just see a woman in a dress, scarf, cuffs, waving, and shoes?

Note to self:  Erring does not equal earring.

Okay, it is metonomic (definitely the adjective form of metonomy...)  because each article of clothing represents a new part of her life.

The dress hides the lust and makes her feel safe.  The scarf distracts the people, but traps her stomacher.  Her cuffs are tearing.  All this is further hidden behind her waving.

Waving.  Who waves?  The queen of England or a Miss American model would wave so graceful.  Delight in disorder?  The speaker is mocking these people who hide behind perfection.  I think...