Andrew Marvell's poem, To His Coy Mistress, is a carpe diem poem which focuses on how the speaker wants his love to be. To reinforce this theme, Marvell uses the literary elements of allusions, metaphor, imagery and tone.
Marvell begins his poem stressing how he would want his love to be peaceful and drawn out, if there enough time for it to be that way. To describe the widespread period of time, he makes allusion to past and future events of religious scripture. In lines 7-10 Marvell talks of the period from ten years before the flood, which occurs after creation, until the conversion of the Jews, which was to happen at Armageddon. By describing such a vast period of time,
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