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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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. ... The sun is also assumed to be elderly: "Thine age asks ease" (27) which relates this situation to teenagers and parents. ...

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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). ... This is a very bold statement in and of itself, but putting it on its own line emphasizes the speaker's delusions of grandeur. ...

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