... body. Next, the speaker alarms his reader with that same sense of urgency felt in the first two lines. In lines 21 and 22, he says, "But at my back, I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." (21-22). I think Marvell delivers this second burst of urgency at this particular part of the poem in order to secure in our thoughts with ... Stand still, yet we will make him run." (45-46). Obviously the speaker is determined to fight time with such strength and speed that even the sun will have to catch up to their love. The entire argument is dialectic in form, that is, it has a thesis...

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... every part of her body. However, the sense of urgency felt in the first two lines reappears. "But at my back, I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near." (Marvell 21-22). Marvell delivers this second burst of urgency at this particular part of the poem in order to secure in our thoughts with his importance of time. Time is a part of ... effort to gather their strengths together in order to fight time. The speaker is determined to fight time with such strength and speed that even the sun will have to catch up to their love. "Thus, though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, ye...

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... fact that they don't have all the time in the world for "at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near", even though she may deserve nothing less(21-22). Time will not stand still for her. She needs to overcome her timidity and seize time with affection so that she will not waste her life away. The speaker is ... haunted by the idea of death, the fact that "Time" will eventually catch up to him. Marvell uses this imagery and metaphor to display how Carpe Diem is almost like a war, in that you must cherish every second because you never know when ... ...

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