Compare The Treatment Of Love In The

Herrick poem ‘To the virgins, to make much of time’. In Herrick’s poem he tells

the virgins not to be shy and to experience love. In Marvell’s poem he makes

the point that time is short and that not everything can be done in such little

time. Marvell compliments and flatters his mistress by saying he would do all

the romantic things he mentions but cannot since time is running out. ‘Times

winged chariot hurrying near’, Marvell creates the picture that the end of time

is flying towards him quickly. In this poem Marvell says that he would eat up

time and conquer it. ‘Devour’, he uses a physical and powerful words to express

his feelings. He ends his poem very heroically by saying he will do anything to

fight against time. ‘Stand still, yet we will make him run’, this heroic

statement show us that he will do anything to carry out the romantic

suggestions he mentions in the first stanza.In Marvell’s poem ‘To his

coy mistress’ and Herrick’s poem ‘To the virgins, to make much of time’ both

poet urge the women to loose their virginity. ‘Quaint honour’, Marvell make a

mockery of his mistress belief in virginity. He says that her beauty and

virginity will be destroyed by time so why keep it. ‘The worms shall try That long-preserved virginity’, Marvell feels that

his mistress has kept her virginity for a long time. Also he creates a very

horrible and disgusting picture of worms burrowing into her vagina. Marvell

uses a very powerful tone to create a disgusting picture of worms penetrating

her vagina. I feel that Marvell disregards the idea of keeping you virginity

since he feel it does not matter is you?re a virgin when your dead since worm

will bore into you. In the poem ‘To the virgins, to make much of time’ Herrick

make the point that you should lose your virginity since time is running out to

do so. I feel that Marvell’s poem is much stronger since he is pleading for sex

since time is running out for him to do so. In Herrick’s poem he is telling the

virgins to lose their virginity and so is not personal. ??????????? ??????????? In Herrick’s poem ‘Daffadills’ and Marvell’s poem there

is an emphasis on the fact the fact that beauty does not last. ‘Decay’, Herrick

is saying that time is passing so quickly that beauty is turning into decay.

‘Morning dew’, both Herrick and Marvell make the comparison of time to morning

dew. This creates a picture that time in very short and that there is little

time to be wasted. In Herrick’s poem ‘To Dianeme’, there is also an emphasis

that beauty is not everlasting. ‘World of Beauties gone’, the poet is saying

that the beauty of a ruby is everlasting and the beauty of a person

deteriorates.??????????? In Herrick’s and Marvell’s poems there is a difference in

the structure and style of the poem. Marvell’s poem is structures in to

distinct parts. The poem is written in rhyme couplet and so the lines of the

poem stand out. The rhyme couplets create an epigrammatic force which make each

line very powerful. In Herrick’s poem ‘Daffadils’ the line length varies and

some of the line are only one word. The short lines give an effect of how short

time is. ???????????