He used language according to his own fashion, coining words and expressions that have today become so commonplace, that they seem to have been part of the very idiom of language. ... Shakespearean quotes such as "To be, or not to be: that is the question " (Hamlet - Act III, Scene I) and "This above all: to thine own self be true " (Hamlet - Act I, Scene III) have passed into standard usage. ...

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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...

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