... to the sun, saying that it should be happy the world is set up so that all that matters is inside the speaker's bedroom. He patronizes the sun, saying, "Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties bee/To warm the world, that's done in warming us" (27-28). The speaker is saying that the sun must be getting ... in the world, he uses the second line to say, "Nothing else is" (22). This is a very bold statement in and of itself, but putting it on its own line emphasizes the speaker's delusions of grandeur. Lines five through eight in each stanza are used to support the speaker's argument. The...

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... last forever. 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 ... indeed not reality but what should be or what could be. 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...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... " (5-8). He would rather that the sun is making others feel guilty for their tardiness, their inferior skill at hunting, or their procrastination at working on their farm, than arousing his own sensitivities. He also seems to feel that he has some superiority over the sun. In the second stanza the tone becomes more mocking. If the sun is so remarkable to ... more important than all the other countries and royalty. In fact, these seemingly important people are simply trying to mimic the lovers. The sun is also assumed to be elderly: "Thine age asks ease" (27) which relates this situation ...

• Word Count: 991
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• Grade Level: High School