Marvell vs Herrick
...in the form of an argument, they are trying to convince their women in the poems to persuade for sex and forget about their morals. Yet Marvell referred indirectly to such excessive appeal to his female to confront this tradition of love. Marvell is addressing his mistress personally to convince her to become intimate with him. However, Herrick’s poem is refers to all virgin girls for his own fantasizing dream to have sex with men. The speakers describe their love as an impressive event with variety of charm and lure, a romance that exist alongside when their women are youth. Both poets also used sensational image towards their live and their appeal. Marvell highlighted his mistress by comparing it to a drop of dew, “Now therefore, while…like morning dew” [33-34]. Here he is emphasizing that like dew youth does not stay forever. In Herrick’s poem he gives the sun life like qualities in his poem, “The glorious lamp…he’s to setting.” [5-8]. Here he is stressing for beauty and its shine, if these girls don’t live life now that might be they will miss their prime and will not have any fun while their beauty would be diminish. Both Carpe diem poets feel that young girls are not taking advantage of their youth and they are going to miss the best part of their life. In Herrick’s poem his tone of variety is relaxed. For instance, when he writes, “ Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;” [1-2] his variety of charm has a very relaxed and casual tone. On the other hand, Marvell’s poem, his tone is serious and he is persuade his mistress to have sex with him. 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 ...