"To His Coy Mistress" & "My Life Had stood a Loaded Gun"

Marvell's poem speaks first about love, lust and beauty in the first stanza. Then he speaks about darkness, death and deterioration. "To His Coy Mistress" is about a man trying to convince a women life is short so that she has intercourse with him. He explains to her life is short by speaking about death. He implies that the mistress should have sex with him so that her body does not go to waste when worms devour her, she should let him devour her before.

"My Life Had Stood- a Loaded Gun" speaks of a gun as a loyal partner. Dickinson personifies a gun as loyal to his master because they sleep together, get pleasure when the gun speaks for him.
Both poems turns something negative into a positive.