William Shakespeare once creatively stated "what's to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty...Youth's a stuff will not endure." In these lines, Shakespeare expresses Cavalier poetry at its finest. He agrees with the Cavalier's ideas that you should use time wisely or time will take the years away. Metaphysical poets instead focus on the hereafter, seeing life as only half of the picture when examining immortality. Though both recognize man's mortality, they differ in their responses to that reality. Cavalier poetry rarely looks past that small imprint in time that one makes. It encourages people to make haste, being that it is unknown when one's own time will take a turn for the worst. Metaphysical poetry looks far beyond the present, instead focusing on the soul. Cavalier and Metaphysical poets' concepts of time greatly influenced the poetry they wrote.

Believing that time is of...