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…showed last 75 words of 452 total…is not acted on, then all would be wasted for the end is near. Marvell begins to display time as an entity that is slowly killing all, enforcing the carpe diem motif. Andrew Marvell makes his point effective through his style used in tying in the carpe diem theme. Through allusion, metaphor, imagery and tone, he begins by making immortality concrete, so that the alternative of death being near seems more important to him presently.