Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" is succinctly vulgar. His witty and eloquent speeches may seem impressive, however they bear a tone of frustration and vulgar lust. From this, it is evident that the speaker has failed several times before at winning the lady's love, and therefore, is using eclectic methods and techniques to convince the mistress: the carpe diem tradition.
Marvell's usage of lofty figurative languages and allusions in the first stanza resembles a petrarchan sonnet where it embellishes the idea of love with the linguistic art. However, when followed by the second and the last…
