The Carpe Diem motif in To his demure lover"Seize the day." For disdainful poets, there seemed to be little else to write about that was as interesting as the concept of carpe diem. The form of carpe diem poetry is generally consistent, almost to the point of being predictable. Although Andrew Marvell worked with the same concepts, his changes were well thought out. In “To His Coy Mistress,” Marvell makes use of allusions, metaphors, and grand imagery to convey a mood of majestic endurance and innovatively explicate the motif of carpe diem. Previous carpe diem poems (such as those written by Robert Herrick at the same time period) often took on an apostrophic form and style that emphasized the temporality of youth. The logical extension was to urge the recipient of the poem to take advantage of that youth to further his or her relationship with the narrator. They were often dark and melancholy in theme, under a light veneer of euphony and spring imagery (perhaps to prompt consideration of the winter to come). Marvell chooses not to employ many of these techniques in the opening of "To His Coy Mistress". Instead, his images and tools emphasize how he wants his love to be quiet and prolonged. Rather than begin by focusing on the concept of death, he opens the poem with the lines, "If only we had world enough and time / This timidity, lady, would be no crime" (ll. 1-2). on the trappings of the carpe diem poem, but his focus will be on the grandeur and passion of love, rather than its instability. To begin to slow the passage of time in his poem, Marvell references past and future events on a grand scale. His allusions to religious scriptures… middle of the paper… it becomes easy to say “death is coming, so we should love” without any particular impact behind the thought. Now, countering the alternative to love captured in time, Marvell demonizes time as a tyrant, slowly killing us all. He then states that an escape route and a method of fighting against time is to love passionately and defy its aging effect (ll. 40-46). Rethinking the theme of carpe diem, Andrew Marvell makes his point more effectively than many other poets. working with the same ideas. Using the methods described above, he makes the ideal scene of timelessness more concrete, so that when it is swept away the alternative seems all the more frightening and imperative. In this way he recreates a characteristic of real life: death is imperative, but banalities can often make it seem distant. Invariably, however, he will say hello to all of us.