To The Virgins And To Coy His Mistress
Analytical Essay
The poems I chose to compare/contrast will be by Andrew Marvell, who was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician, and Robert Herrick, who was a 17th century English lyric poet and cleric.
In the poems To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time, by Herrick and To Coy His Mistress, by Marvell, they both have the similarity of the importance of time passing, but also the theme of Carpe Diem and taking the time to enjoy sexual activity. I claim that Marvell’s poem seems to be more personal than Herrick’s poem.
The poem by Marvell shows off a sense of time that is eventually passing very quickly while the poem Herrick has written is doing the same very thing. In the poem by Marvell it says, “Had we but world enough, and time,” this is showing that the vision of time is running out which brings in the idea of Carpe Diem. Within both poems, they both show the idea of Carpe Diem, which means seize the day. This idea came to me because being from a catholic high school; it was told that this idea came from Ancient Rome. This …show more content…
He shows very good metaphor in the poem to compare the youthful beauty to the flowers that will soon age and die off, “ And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.” (Line 3-4). I feel like the difference here with Marvell is that his poem is a bit more personal than Herrick’s. Marvell’s narrator seems to be speaking directly to his mistress sexually. Her coyness would be fine with avoidance of having sex if time was coming to an end. Also he is comparing time with death, “But at my back I awaies hear, times’s winged chariot hurrying near:” at any moment the charriot can come up behind them and take their life. When their life has ended this would interfere with the chance to have sex, which gives them a reason to have sexual relations earlier than
The poems I chose to compare/contrast will be by Andrew Marvell, who was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician, and Robert Herrick, who was a 17th century English lyric poet and cleric.
In the poems To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time, by Herrick and To Coy His Mistress, by Marvell, they both have the similarity of the importance of time passing, but also the theme of Carpe Diem and taking the time to enjoy sexual activity. I claim that Marvell’s poem seems to be more personal than Herrick’s poem.
The poem by Marvell shows off a sense of time that is eventually passing very quickly while the poem Herrick has written is doing the same very thing. In the poem by Marvell it says, “Had we but world enough, and time,” this is showing that the vision of time is running out which brings in the idea of Carpe Diem. Within both poems, they both show the idea of Carpe Diem, which means seize the day. This idea came to me because being from a catholic high school; it was told that this idea came from Ancient Rome. This …show more content…
He shows very good metaphor in the poem to compare the youthful beauty to the flowers that will soon age and die off, “ And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.” (Line 3-4). I feel like the difference here with Marvell is that his poem is a bit more personal than Herrick’s. Marvell’s narrator seems to be speaking directly to his mistress sexually. Her coyness would be fine with avoidance of having sex if time was coming to an end. Also he is comparing time with death, “But at my back I awaies hear, times’s winged chariot hurrying near:” at any moment the charriot can come up behind them and take their life. When their life has ended this would interfere with the chance to have sex, which gives them a reason to have sexual relations earlier than