“The “Carpe Diem” of Time, Love, and Life?” Time is in control of all people's life, because time and death are synonymous with each other. In the two pieces, Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress” and the Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem (sonnet), “I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear”, have similar themes of “carpe diem” and how love needs to be nurture in the here and now. Love can fall into this trap of being lifeless and unsatisfying, which can cause problems in the relationship between lovers. Whenever one is in love, one need to pursue time, instead of time pursuing them. The old saying, there is only two sure things in life and one is death and the other is taxes. Death/time keeps people from obtaining their goals in life.
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The poem was written around the time of the plagues in Europe, in which was responsible for thousands of deaths at that time. The speaker uses metaphors to tell his story. The title gives us a glimpse of what the speaker is relating. The coy mistress means the unwilling mistress (woman in charge). The poem is saying that people need to live in the “carpe diem”, the present because the future is unsure and cannot be promised. Time is in control if all people's life is because time and death become synonymous. The poem line, “Rather at once our time devour / than languish in his slow-chapped power," refers to "slowly devouring jaws." According to “Norton Introduction to Literature”, this refers to the Greek mythical ruler of time, Chronos. (Mays, pg.765) The poem ends with the well educated man speaking to his mistress that they cannot make time stand still, but they can make it run. Though the sexual fantasy in the third stanza is directed at time and not at the mistress, time is in control of all people's life. First, whenever we are in love, we ought to pursue time, instead of time pursuing …show more content…
Time is fragile and can be gone in a moment. In both poems speaks about how time and death are the same. In the poem, “To His Coy Mistress”, states it quite well for both poems on this similar theme. “Through the iron gates of life, thus though we cannot make our sun, stand still, yet we will make it run”. (Mays, pg. 766) The two lovers ought to love and live now for the present day, because there is no tomorrow. The “carpe diem” of the time they have together. Millay romantic view can become an issue for many lovers. Marvell mature view of this theme can have issues as well. Both poems feels the sense of urgency of how to live life. This view can solve the issues between lovers. Live in love and treat love as an urgrent and nurture the relationship in
The poem was written around the time of the plagues in Europe, in which was responsible for thousands of deaths at that time. The speaker uses metaphors to tell his story. The title gives us a glimpse of what the speaker is relating. The coy mistress means the unwilling mistress (woman in charge). The poem is saying that people need to live in the “carpe diem”, the present because the future is unsure and cannot be promised. Time is in control if all people's life is because time and death become synonymous. The poem line, “Rather at once our time devour / than languish in his slow-chapped power," refers to "slowly devouring jaws." According to “Norton Introduction to Literature”, this refers to the Greek mythical ruler of time, Chronos. (Mays, pg.765) The poem ends with the well educated man speaking to his mistress that they cannot make time stand still, but they can make it run. Though the sexual fantasy in the third stanza is directed at time and not at the mistress, time is in control of all people's life. First, whenever we are in love, we ought to pursue time, instead of time pursuing …show more content…
Time is fragile and can be gone in a moment. In both poems speaks about how time and death are the same. In the poem, “To His Coy Mistress”, states it quite well for both poems on this similar theme. “Through the iron gates of life, thus though we cannot make our sun, stand still, yet we will make it run”. (Mays, pg. 766) The two lovers ought to love and live now for the present day, because there is no tomorrow. The “carpe diem” of the time they have together. Millay romantic view can become an issue for many lovers. Marvell mature view of this theme can have issues as well. Both poems feels the sense of urgency of how to live life. This view can solve the issues between lovers. Live in love and treat love as an urgrent and nurture the relationship in