Interesting point: "To His Coy Mistress"

In To His Coy Mistress, Marvell employs the use of many literary devices including alliteration, hyperbole and underscore to express the extent of how time affects a relationship.  Hyperbole is arguably the most effect and interesting literary device that Marvel utilizes not only because it is interesting to see how Marvell juxtaposes hyperbole to underscore, but also because it expresses the emotions of the speaker.  In the first stanza, Marvell executes an insightful use of hyperbole which informs the reader that the speaker is in love with his mistress "Thou by the Indian Ganges side".  At the turn of the 18th century, it is highly unlikely that any man will travel to the Ganges river for a woman, especially with the lack of transportation at the time.  So, Marvell uses hyperbole here to indicate that the speaker loves his mistress very much, even though it is unlikely that he will travel to the Ganges for her.  Subsequently, While the speaker expresses how time is essential in his foundation of lover for his mistress, the speaker then goes on to express how time will ruin the woman, in stanza two.  Marvell juxtaposes the use of hyperbole to express how much the speaker loves his mistress in stanza one, and how in time he will love her more, to how time will eventually ruin his love for his mistress.  "Thy beauty shall no more be found" is the speakers expression of how time will make his now beautiful mistress old, and he will no longer find her beautiful.  The hyperbole in stanza one to express how time is essential in the development of love is juxtaposed to the speakers expression that time will ruin his mistress, in stanza two.