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 lust. ... In the effort to acknowledge beauty by complementing her "thine eyes" (14) and her breasts, the speaker retracts from respecting the lady for her integrity or her persona. ...
In the first section the voice the poet chooses to use (it is never clear if he speaks as himself or 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 '. ... Without knowing all the details of 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 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 entity that is never-ending. ... 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 I always hear Time's winged chariot hu...
