Poetry Across Time - Relationships - To His Coy Mistress
- Created by: Sofalof
- Created on: 03-11-12 11:28
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- To His Coy Mistress
- Carpe diem (seize the day) theme
- Iambic Tetrameter
- Theme is seduction - he wants his partner to sleep with him
- 'Had we but world enough, and time,//This coyness, Lady, were no crime'
- If we had forever then it would be OK that you are shy/coy
- 'Coy'
- Shy
- Lines 8 and 9
- He would love her from 10 years before Noah's Ark until the Jews convert to Christianity (which will never happen)
- 'My vegetable love'
- Vegetables grow slowly
- Lines 13-18
- He would look at her for ages
- 'you deserve this state'
- She deserves this but they don't have all the time in the world
- 'But'
- Powerful
- 'Time's winged chariot hurrying near'
- Time is catching up with us
- 'Deserts of vast eternity'
- The afterlife?
- 'worms shall try//That long preserved virginity'
- Worms will eat you anyway. She might as well sleep with him
- 'into ashes all my lust'
- He won't be able to love her when she's dead. Suggests that Marvell doesn't believe in the afterlife
- 'none, I think, do there embrace.'
- No one embraces each other in the afterlife
- 2nd stanza
- Much more serious and shocks the reader back to reality
- Lines 33 and 34
- While we're young
- Lines 35 and 36
- While we're passionate
- 'amorous bird of prey'
- Proud and confident
- Lines 39-40
- Lets devour our time rather than let it languish
- Lines 45-46
- Time will go fast because they are having fun
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