and so life can be such if you are living it to the fullest. And while her living soul transpires her pores are on fire. She may actually be understanding what he is telling her. If she is on fire, so to speak, she is turned on, feeling erotic. Then at line 38: “And now, like amorous birds of prey……” this may be far fetched, but birds is plural meaning two, i.e. the two of them. At the beginning of this sentence, “And now”, appears to be an inner transition to the argument, possibly saying “And now that you agree with me…..” : lets be together and seize the day as one. During this renaissance period the English civil war was beginning and ending, battles were being fought. Destruction due to war may soon cut their lives short, and the speaker could be saying that through all this conflict they still have each other and if death (time) is upon them then let us live all we can before it is over. Even without the element of war and battle in this analysis another theme is Carpe Diem. This theme certainly corresponds with the aggressive tone, the quickness in meter and rhyme, and the element of life and death. ...
