The Lovesong Of J Alfred Prufrock Comparison

The poetry usually does not only provide a pleasure to the readers but is also aimed at revealing the important ideas in a subtle manner. Considering the role of poetry in this way, the poems "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot deliver a crucial message to their readers. While the poems are divided by a long period of time, they deliver a similar idea about the time. Both poems reflect on the idea that time is killing and making a person seem older while the perception of time in the poems differs quite strongly.
The idea of time that both poems include concern the problem of aging and growing older. By Marvell as well as by Eliot, the main character of the poem speaks about becoming older, less beautiful, and less energetic. Prufrock directly claims in the poem, “I grow old … I grow old” (Eliot, line 120). In contrast, the character of Marvell's poem puts it more subtle and indirectly, stating “And younder all before us lie/ Deserts of vast eternity” (Marvell, lines 23-24). In such different ways the poets express a single idea reflecting that the time moves on and future tends to become present. At the same time, people tend to get older and lose what they had in their youth. This factor is also

In Marvell's poem, the lover worries that the time will pass and there would not be enough time to be spent with his beloved. The main character states here, “Had we but world enough and time/ This coyness Lady were no crime” (Marvell lines 1-2). He expresses his fears that time is limited for them, and thus encourages his beloved to enjoy the present moment and behave respectively. Marvell builds his argument for valuing the present by leaving the past full of illusions to the future of death. Respectively, time by Marvell is limited, so that there is only present to be enjoyed, and one's actions should all be in the