... " side" (5) while waiting "two hundred years to adore each breast" (15) are logically impossible considering the time period's difficulty with travel and health. The use of simile contradicts the speakers own concept of forever lasting love when he offers his lady to act "like amorous birds of prey" (38) and act upon primal instincts, which is suggestive of participating in savage ... accolades. The blazon, a verbal array of the woman's physical qualities, does not aid the speaker, but only insults the lady's intelligence. In the effort to acknowledge beauty by complementing her "thine e...

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... last forever. In this metaphorical reality, years seem to pass as minutes and the man allocates hundreds of years to adore his love: "An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest;" This system of time refers to the myth of love being an ... indeed not reality but what should be or what could be. In response to this world of eternity, Marvell places the second stanza which begins with a word which by its own can define the implication of that eternal love is only a myth; "But": "But at my back...

• Word Count: 1243
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... if the poem is intended as a satire) very traditional, romantic language and is complimentary throughout, such as My vegetable love should grow' and An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes '. In this section of the poem love is represented as a beautiful thing that can last forever. He reinforces this point with near constant references to time, many of which ... the poets life however, it is impossible to tell just hoe he intended to characterize love, and so, as is often the case with poetry, the reader will see their own interpretation. In conclusion, while only two poems hav...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... " side" (5) while waiting "two hundred years to adore each breast" (15) are logically impossible considering the time period's difficulty with travel and health. The use of simile contradicts the speakers own concept of forever lasting love when he offers his lady to act "like amorous birds of prey" (38) and act upon primal instincts, which is suggestive of participating in savage ... accolades. The blazon, a verbal array of the woman's physical qualities, does not aid the speaker, but only insults the lady's intelligence. In the effort to acknowledge beauty by complementing her "thine e...

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate