Andrew Marvell’s poem, To His Coy Mistress, is a carpe diem poem which focuses on how the speaker wants his love to be. To reinforce this theme, Marvell uses the literary elements of allusions, metaphor, imagery and tone. Marvell begins his poem stressing how he would want his love to be peaceful and drawn out, if there enough time for it to be that way. To describe the widespread period of time, he makes …showed first 75 words of 452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 452 total…is not acted on, then all would be wasted for the end is near. Marvell begins to display time as an entity that is slowly killing all, enforcing the carpe diem motif. Andrew Marvell makes his point effective through his style used in tying in the carpe diem theme. Through allusion, metaphor, imagery and tone, he begins by making immortality concrete, so that the alternative of death being near seems more important to him presently.