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... Harwood's subsequent description of memories as "iridescent, fugitive", illustrating the contradictory nature of memories as mesmerising, elusive and dangerously overwhelming. Harwood's juxtaposition of the hard, lifeless substances "marble and granite" with the living and growing "quick of autumn grasses" serves as a metaphor for the transience of life and the finality death; as "quick" ... ...
... reality, the man now reveals to the woman what will happen once time prevails, as it is sure to do; "Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honor tun to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The grave's a fine ... ...
... this good again and that he won't be there when she grows old nor will anyone because no one will want her anymore. He uses a metonymy when he says "thy marble vault" which is representing her tomb. The speaker refers to her virginity as a "quaint honor" making it sound that the honor in preserving her virginity is insignificant and it will ... ...
