Blog Post #2

Both "You, Andrew Marvell" and "To His Coy Mistress" emphasize the power of life and time, and how you must savor all your time and make the best use of it while it is there. People are constantly busy because we want to do as much as we can and "To His Coy Mistress" really delves into the idea of how we humans try to use every second, and the speaker of the poem tries to take advantage of that. The capitalizing on how we use time is what really intrigues me in these two poems. In "To His Coy Mistress" it states, "But at my back I always hear/Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity."and it just shows how we are so focused on time running out, we can rush into things. However in "You, Andrew Marvell" it says, "To feel the always coming on / The always rising of the night" so once again there is this idea of time coming closer and closer. As Mark Strand remarks, " I was aware, as I had been in the past, that the poem seemed suspended between times. " We let time happen to us and we just wait for it to pass. This realization can have a great impact on one's life because it recognizes the fact that you must be proactive with your life. The power of poetry is shown here through the way so few words can bring across this huge idea to commonplace people.I sort of understand what these poets are going for but I don't feel like I am completely committed in their claims, however I do agree with some of the points they both make.