if they had so much time he would wait forever to praise her beauty and win her love He would spend hundreds of years praising her eyes breasts and each part of her beauty He says An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes But then he changes the tone He says that time is running fast He hears Time s winged chariot hurrying near This means death is coming closer every minute After death there will be no more beauty or love So he says to his coy mistress that they should love each other now while they are young So in this poem Marvell suggests that life is short and we must enjoy love and life quickly before time and death stop it Love in The Definition of Love This poem is about a very different kind of love Here the speaker says his love is deep and pure but also painful He says his painful love was born from Despair and Impossibility This means his love can never be fulfilled The speaker blames Fate for this sadness He says Fate becomes jealous when it sees two perfect loves So Fate cannot allow them to come close to each other As Marvell writes For Fate with jealous eye does see Two perfect loves nor lets them close So in this poem Marvell shows a spiritual love that can never be fulfilled Passion and Thought Andrew Marvell s treatment of love is special because he mixes passion strong feelings with thought clever and logical ideas in his poems For example in To His Coy Mistress the speaker is full of passion He wants to enjoy love with his mistress before time runs out So the speaker uses logic to convince her He says that time is passing quickly and death is always coming closer Nobody can enjoy love after death in a grave He says The grave s a fine and private place But none I think do there embrace So they should enjoy love while they are still young This shows Marvell s clever use of reasoning in a love poem In The Definition of Love the speaker talks about his painful love which can never be fulfilled He uses ideas like Fate parallel lines and the distant poles These are very thoughtful and smart ideas He says Fate keeps the lovers far away from each other like at the North Pole and South Pole Us as the distant poles have plac'd So in these poems Marvell wonderfully blends passion and thought to express love Use of Conceit A conceit is a clever surprising comparison between two very different things Marvell s use of conceits makes his poems amazing In The Definition of Love Marvell compares the two lovers with parallel lines Parallel lines go side by side forever but never touch This shows that the lovers can never come close to each other Truly parallel Though infinite can never meet In fine Andrew Marvell s treatment of love is very special He uses deep passion and logical thought to love his beloved He also shows the pain of unfulfilled love Marvell uses clever comparisons to express deep feelings in his love poems This makes his poems deep beautiful and memorable