To His Coy Mistress
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- Created on: 23-06-13 17:17
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- To His Coy Mistress
- Themes
- Carpe Diem (seize the day)
- Lust
- Age comes sooner than expected
- Emotions, moods and feelings
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- Themes
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- To His Coy Mistress
- Themes
- Carpe Diem (seize the day)
- Lust
- Getting old happens quicker than expected
- Emotions, moods and feelings
- Reluctance: From the narrator's increasing frustration, it tells us the mistress may not be comfortable with pursuing the physical side of the relationship
- Urgency: Due to 'Time's winged chariot hurrying near' the narrator wants them to enjoy the time they have.
- Frustration: The narrator simply wants a physical relationship and feel they need to take action while they are still young.
- Impatience: This man makes it clear that he doesn't want this love affair to go on for ever. He wants to seize the day.
- Desire/lust: Throughout the poem the male is attempting to his mistress in to bed
- Techniques and Effects
- Imagery: The narrator uses imagery to describe her beauty and he also uses animalistic imagery.
- Aggressive language: the narrator uses more direct language to get hi message across.
- Personification: In the poem the narrator personifies time as loves enemy.
- Enjambment: This shows the narrator is thinking spontaneously to persuade his mistress into bed.
- Form and structure
- The poem has three stanza's.
- First stanza the ideal love affair is presented, with extravagant references to the care and devotion he would give to her.
- The second stanza makes it clear that they are running out of time as death will come sooner then they expect.
- Third stanza proposes that they fight time and enjoy each other with the time they have.
- The poem has three stanza's.
- Themes
- Emotions, moods and feelings
- Reluctance: From the narrator's increasing frustration, it tells us the mistress may not be comfortable with pursuing the physical side of the relationship
- Urgency: Due to 'Time's winged chariot hurrying near' the narrator wants them to enjoy the time they have.
- Frustration: The narrator simply wants a physical relationship and feel they need to take action while they are still young.
- Impatience: This man makes it clear that he doesn't want this love affair to go on for ever. He wants to seize the day.
- Desire/lust: Throughout the poem the male is attempting to his mistress in to bed
- The poem has three stanza's.
- First stanza the ideal love affair is presented, with extravagant references to the care and devotion he would give to her.
- The second stanza makes it clear that they are running out of time as death will come sooner then they expect.
- Third stanza proposes that they fight time and enjoy each other with the time they have.
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