On Becoming a Poet

After reading the 2 poems, I didn't really understand what they were about and what I was supposed to write about. I recognized the rhyme scheme in Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," but I did not see the real meaning. I noticed the different spacing and rhyme scheme in Archibald Macleish's "You, Andrew Marvell," but again failed to decipher the poem. I saw the obvious fact that Marvell wrote one of the poems and was in the title of the other but didn't see why. 
After reading Mark Strand's essay On Becoming a Poet, it became more clear. Strand talks about how he loved the poem "You, Andrew Marvell" and wishes that he had written it; however, he didn't understand the true meaning of the poem until much later. He makes the observation that he, "was aware, as [he] had been in the past, that the poem seemed suspended between times. Only now that suspension seemed to feature a strange circularity, each event marked by a newness but eerily resembling the events that had come before"(Strand). This repetition is demonstrated in the rhyme scheme of the poem. "And here face down beneath the sun" "To feel the always coming on" "And here face downward in the sun" "The shadow of the night comes on ..." Lines 1, 3, 34, 36, respectively. The rhyming of sun and on is repeated in the first and last stanza to show that the poem had ended and the cycle is completed. 
Strand notes that "To His Coy Mistress" has a different, more urgent style than Macleish's poem. He says "You, Andrew Marvell" has a, "languor that is in direct contrast to the heated urgency of the lover's speech in Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" (Strand). The AA BB rhyme scheme (I think) along with the lack of spacing speeds the poem up; overall there is a very fast pace when it is read. Here is an example: 
"Had we but world enough and time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime.

We would sit down, and think which way

To walk, and pass our long love’s day" (1-4). 

The differences between the two are highlighted and explained in Strand's essay and provide an interesting outlook.

(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/andrew-marvell)

Here is a picture of Andrew Marvell. The subject of 1 poem and the author of the other.