Tone

The tone of “To the Virgins, to Make much of Time” is toward a broader audience than the tone of “To His Coy Mistress” in which the speaker is talking directly to his love. The speaker of “To His Coy Mistress” has himself in mind when speaking, he is trying to get what he wants from his audience. He is trying to lure in his audience with his seemingly smooth talk and seductive wording. He uses time as a reason for motivating his love to be with him. “The gravels a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.”
In “To the Virgins, to Make much of Time” the speaker seems to be speaking in general of thoughts which go beyond himself and extend to the rest of humanity. The speaker intends for readers to think about these words/ideas and to possibly get something from the poem. The tone is also clear and crisp as the latter poem is more deceptive or tricky toward it‘s audience. This speaker however, is not trying to fool anyone but instead to inform or invoke thought. The speakers theme of time and tone seems thoughtful and truthful. The speaker above is using the theme of time as a ploy or tool, yet this speaker is making a point of how time flies and we must “seize the day!”

To Coy His Mistress

He is professing his endless love for her. He loves her now, and will love her even more with time. His portrayal is not completely positive, as he talks of what would become if she were not to love him back. He describes his passion in interesting ways. "I would love you ten years before the flood." (Lines 7-8) Line 12, "...Vaster than the empires, and more slow."

Allusions in "The Ballad of John and Yoko"

The many allusions in the song “The Ballad of John and Yoko” recount the activities of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during March and April 1969. The song begins by describing the difficulty the couple had getting from London to Gibraltar where the two were to get married. In the third verse of the song, John alludes to his and Yoko’s famous Bed-in for Peace; “Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton, / Talking in our beds for a week. / The newspapers said, "Say what you doing in bed?" / I said, ‘We're only trying to get us some peace’.” While at the Amsterdam Hilton the two invited reporters into their room at the Hilton Hotel as they promoted world Peace.

After their Bed-in for Peace, John and Yoko departed for Vienna where they continued their peace campaign by holding a bagism conference; “Made a lightning trip to Vienna, / eating chocolate cake in a bag.” Bagism involved wearing a large bag over your body to conceal a person’s physical features; the idea was to satirize and prejudice and stereotypes.