To Althee From Prison Essay
Love, time, and freedom are all major themes in "To Coy Mistress", "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time", and "To Althea from Prison". Although, what is the main themes in all three poems? In the first two poems, the major theme is time and how quickly it is passing. In "To Althea from Prison" focuses on the speaker's faith and love. The speakers in Marvell and Herrick's poems would disagree with the them displayed in lines tenty-nine through thirty-two of "To Althea, from Prison". First of all, in "To His Coy Mistress" the speaker says "Had we but world enough, and time" which means if they had more time, then he would focus on each part of her body until he got to her heart. That is a metaphor for sex and love. He expresses