In the short poems, “The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the theme of carpe diem, or “seize the day”, is incorporated in these poems. In other words, the theme is about enjoying life in the moment and to make the most of it because life is short. In both of these poems, the writers express that theme by attempting to persuade women to seize the day. In other words, they are poems of seduction. In the poems in Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and John Donne’s “The Flea”, the men persuade the women to “seize the day” in order to seize their sexuality.
The three stanzas represent the three stages of the poet’s argument. In the first stanza, Marvell writes, “Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness,
The three stanzas represent the three stages of the poet’s argument. In the first stanza, Marvell writes, “Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness,