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if they had all the time in the world they could spend a lot of time together and he would really take his time over her, worshipping her as if she were sacred:
“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.”

Marvell clearly exaggerates the time into years, which adds to the full effect of this idea of her being worshipped upon and praised almost like a God or a priceless work of art.
At the beginning of the first section, the narrator tries to flatter her by saying:

“Thou by the Indian Ganges side
should’st Rubies find:
I by the Tide of Humber would complain.”

Picturing her by the Indian Ganges looking for Rubies makes her sound oriental and ...

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Marvell uses the third section as the narrator’s conclusion, voicing his thoughts on what they should do to prevent: “Times winged chariot…” catching up with them.
He once again uses a vast array of violent images that induce pleasure in his mind:

“let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am’rous birds of prey,
…tear our Pleasures with rough strife.”

This shows that he is more interested in a wild romp like scavenging vultures, struggling to tear the flesh off an animal carcass. He gives away the fact that he doesn’t want to be gentile but in fact gets pleasure from being forceful.
With these violent ...

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