Both Richard Wilbur and Andrew Marvell wrote poems expressing their view on the use of time. These two poets make the speakers in their poems use time as a factor to entice their women in fulfilling their desires. In Wilbur's "A Late Aubade" (which was written in a later era than Marvell's), the speaker describes to his woman activities that most women engage themselves in such as shopping, reading novels, gardening etc. Wilbur allows the speaker in this poem to describe these activities in the most unappealing way possible. However, Marvell uses a more subtle description to lure the female audience into doing what the speaker desires. Although both of these poets are from different periods, they use similar techniques, but with different twists to create a very unique way of explaining to their audiences how to make use of time.
             While Marvell's poem, in its early stages paints a picture of fantasy, Wilbur's poem is very distressful from the very beginning. Knowing that most people, especially women, would often shudder when they hear of liver, the speaker states to his woman: "You could be sitting now in a carrel/Turning some liver-spotted page" (lines 1-2) to make the task sound appalling. These line in effect, not only praise the speaker's lover for not engaging in activities such as reading (horror stories), he makes certain that she never, at no point in her life pick up this habit. Throughout the first part of the poem, Wilbur continually uses words, which creates a tone that discourages the female audience, from ever doing anything that may divert her attention from her lover. In the second couple of lines the speaker describes women who shop as "...rising in an elevator-cage/Toward Ladies' Apparel" (lines 3-4) The tone of these lines suggests that women who often shop are in some kind of prison. The "elevator cage" suggests a barrier that ...