Comparing To His Coy Mistress And Robert Herrick

Comparison of Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”

Time goes on and there are a lot of stuff that you need and want to get accomplished. People set up some certain goal for themselves and throughout their life; sooner or later they want them to get done. People are afraid of not getting their purpose compassed, because of the fact that time does not stop and sometimes you need to handle when time are close. This type of thinking and way of acting, are being considered in "To his Coy Mistress", a poem by Andrew Marvell, and also in Robert Herrick's poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”. This essay will compare these poems with mainly focusing on tone, imagery and their messages.
The main theme in both the poems could be carpe diem, seize the day. Robert Herrick, “To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time”, starts off his poem by writing “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today. Tomorrow will be dying.” Robert Herrick means that this young lady should utilize her time cleverly, because in a matter of time her youth will be lost and sooner or later she will get old and die. He then talks about the sun, where is symbolizes life, “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting.” he then talks about time again, where he compares sunset with the fact that when the sun sets you will die. Andrew Marvell starts by writing, “Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way. To walk, and pass our long love’s day.” he points out the fact that if this fine young lady and himself had all the in the world, they could be together and do want they wanted and don’t care about time. But because youth flies away so fast, they need to start making love and being together right