Marvell vs Herrick
During the 17th century the style of writing was changing from poems about death to ones whose subject was about love and passionate with women. This kind of writing is also known as carpe diem. Robert Herrick and Andrew Marvell were two of the first carpe diem poets. Although their styles were similar their subjects differed. Both poets who have chosen women for their sex appeal and ultimately their intention was to get them in beds. While these poems are focus on fantasizing sex, their variety of charm, and reminding the importance of time in which poets can accomplished to efforts to seduce the women.Speakers describe their love as a magnificent expanse towards fantasizing and having a sex with woman in very passionate way. In To His Coy Mistress, Marvell writes, "Had we but world...were no crime." [1-2]. This is metaphor saying if they had all the time in the world to spend magnificent and remarkable time together that he would not be worried about to getting married right away. Herrick says in To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time, "And this same flower that smile today, Tomorrow will be dying." [3-4]. This means that whatever man likes a girl today, tomorrow may like somebody else. Both Marvell and Herrick's poem are in t
Although both poems had the same ways of getting their points across, reminding the significant time to seduce a woman for their satisfaction. Marvell is trying to get a woman to marry her, and Herrick is trying to get young women seduce while they are young. Marvell writes, "They beauty shall...That long-preserved virginity." [25-28]. Though Marvell wants to marry his Coy Mistress she dos not want to marry him now, so he tries to tell her what would be happened if she died as virgin woman. If time were not running out he would not need to marry her, but since it is her only person he wants to marry and he needs to do it before he dies. In other hand, Herrick writes, "Then be not coy...you may forever tarry." [13-16]. He is trying to persuade young women to have sensational relations with men while they are young. Furthermore, he is claiming that once these young girls are old men will not want to be with them anymore. Marvell is telling his mistress that they need to have sex while they can because if she waits any longer, they will not be able to be intimate. However, Herrick approached in different way, he is telling all of the virgin girls to go out and have sex in their prime because if they do not, they will regret not having sex when they had the chance to do so.
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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