Why is it that time and love are so related? Both Andrew Marvell and W.H. Auden explore this concept in their thought provoking poetry. The poets use time as the conditional element to love, in that time limits the extent of love. However, Contrastingly to Auden, Marvell accepts the limit of time and loves through carpe diem. Auden on the other hand, espouses the limits of time and states that it in turn causes people to love with a “crooked heart.” Aside from the apparent themes of love and time in “To His Coy Mistress” and “As I Walked Out One Evening,” the poems share distinct similarities and differences in terms of poetic structure as well as specific diction and word choice.
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