To His Coy Mistress Analysis
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- Created on: 02-05-16 13:17
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- To His Coy Mistress
- Theme of sex and time
- Slight theme of death
- Suggests she is going to die a virgin
- Time is passing
- Slight theme of death
- Suggests that they should have a more intimate relationship and live life to the full now
- Love wasn't important in the 17th century
- Sex before marriage was acceptable for men but not for women
- "Tear our pleasures with rough strife" Rough pleasure, pleasure with trouble. Oxymoron
- Refers to the Greek sun god Apollo/Helios
- Refers to the start of the world
- "Vast eternity" miles and miles of emptyness
- Uses hyperbole, extreme exaggeration
- She is just going to get older
- Theme of sex and time
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